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Author: Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Rene Najera, a Mexican American man with short black hair and a face mask. He is standing inside his office door, and his arms are folded.
Advocacy

Ask an Epidemiologist: Dr. Rene Najera on Vaccines, Masks, And Trusted COVID Info Sources

Posted on April 11, 2022May 5, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We talked with epidemiologist Dr. Rene Najera about the state of COVID vaccines, masks, and trusted sources for pandemic information—as well as why he doesn’t like to use the word “booster.”

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Accommodations

Why Is Health Care So Inaccessible to Autistic People?

Posted on April 5, 2022October 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

We talk with Dr. Mary Doherty and Dr. Sebastian Shaw of Autistic Doctors International about how undetected barriers to health care for autistic people can lead to delayed care, serious complications, and sometimes even fatalities.

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AAC

Believing in Nonspeakers and the Right to Communicate: An Interview With Dr. Vikram Jaswal

Posted on March 14, 2022June 29, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Those who would deny people access to their most effective method of communication because of concerns about the potential for false accusations should, as Rua Williams recently wrote, “ask [themselves] why a false accusation is more harmful than the ability to accuse.”

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Accommodations

Action Alert: Help Protect Californians With Developmental Disabilities!

Posted on March 5, 2022August 31, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This means that people cannot conserve disabled people as easily as they used to. It does NOT mean that people with disabilities will be barred from getting the supports they need and deserve.

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Disability

Autism Checklist of DOOM

Posted on January 15, 2022October 5, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This checklist is for people who aren’t autistic (or whose autistic traits differ from those of their child/charge) to understand what may upset an autistic person, and cause them distress.

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Disability

Have Faith In Your Children With Intellectual Disabilities

Posted on December 31, 2021March 30, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This idea that people with intellectual disabilities cannot learn is a very dangerous idea and it leads to us being harmed. I think it is important to autistics with intellectual disabilities that we get the support to learn.

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Autism

Creating a “Profound Autism” Category Is Segregation, Not Progress

Posted on December 8, 2021May 9, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

The term “profound autism” is not very useful to parents like me, or autistic people like my son. Instead, parents need connection with the communities who understand our kids’ high-support traits, like the disability and non-speaking communities—in addition to the wider autistic community.

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Autism

UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit 2021: Debate on the Neurodiversity Movement, with Shannon Rosa and Matthew Belmonte

Posted on December 1, 2021May 23, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Our senior editor Shannon Rosa was invited to participate in the 2021 UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit, on a panel debating the role of the Neurodiversity Movement in supporting and including autistic people with intellectual and communication disabilities.

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AAC

Jordyn Zimmerman on This Is Not About Me, a Remarkable New Film

Posted on October 18, 2021May 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jordyn Zimmerman’s story, as told in the new documentary This Is Not About Me, is an example of how non-speaking autistic people can blossom when communication becomes possible.

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Autism

Little Victories: Publishers Need to Stop Framing Resenting Autistic Children as “Love”

Posted on October 8, 2021May 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Please, avoid this deceptively heartwarming tale. It mostly only models how to make questionable choices as a parent of an autistic child, and that can only hurt autistic children. 

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