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Category: Disability

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Accommodations

How to Make Your Workplace More Neurodiversity-Inclusive

Posted on May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 by Luce Greenwood

If your workplace wants to successfully recruit autistic and neurodivergent job candidates, consider these insider tips on how to make the hiring process easier.

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Accommodations

Understanding How Routines Can Help Autistic People

Posted on April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 by Fergus Murray

There are dangers to assuming autistic people need routines, without understanding why. Routines imposed by other people are likely to do more harm than good.

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April and Accommodations: I Need Pictures to Learn Things!

Posted on April 20, 2022April 25, 2022 by Elliot Gavin Keenan

I have trouble orienting myself in space, and simply telling me where something is isn’t particularly helpful. I would be able to find things and understand complex concepts easier if people used illustrations.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Answer My Questions, Please! 

Posted on April 17, 2022April 26, 2022 by Ava Gurba

If I don’t have the right information, I risk doing the task incorrectly and having to redo something in a different way and/or having someone get angry with me, angrier than when I was just asking questions.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Don’t Second-Guess What I Tell You!

Posted on April 16, 2022April 28, 2022 by Rhi Lloyd-Williams

If I tell you I need something, listen. I might not have the energy to communicate your way, can we please communicate my way for a little bit?

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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

April and Accommodations: Don’t Speak Over Us!

Posted on April 11, 2022May 5, 2022 by Hassaan

I can only speak for myself but I am aware many autistic people will sadly have the experience of being spoken over by others. The ‘others’ in this scenario may not even be aware they are doing it, but it doesn’t make it less hurtful.

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Accessibility

April and Accommodations: Listen To What I Tell You!

Posted on April 6, 2022May 9, 2022 by Grace Trumpower

Listen to me. Please. I went to therapy for countless hours over countless years to be able to identify and express my needs and now that I finally can, it seems like it doesn’t matter.

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Accommodations

April and Accommodations: Let Me Ask for Clarification

Posted on April 3, 2022April 9, 2022 by Reid Caplan

A huge way to accommodate me is to just ask instead of assuming, or assume good intentions first. It shows you are trying to come from a place of understanding, which is the first step in building trust for me.

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Accessibility

April and Accommodations: Accessible Health Care — Not By Phone!

Posted on April 1, 2022April 4, 2022 by Anne Borden King

Something that would make my life easier would be accessible virtual health care; in other
words, NOT by phone.

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