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Accommodations

Share the Road: The Journey to Autistry

Posted on May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 by Chantal Sicile-Kira

In their new book Share the Road: The Journey to Autistry, Janet Lawson and Dan Swearingen generously map out how they created a successful and thriving program that incorporates project-based learning and personal interest into learning needed life skills.

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Advocacy

Grievance-Based Parent Organizations Are Autism’s MAGA Movement

Posted on November 16, 2022July 21, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

If you’re the parent of autistic child or adult, and you are also horrified by the blatant misinformation being peddled and swallowed by MAGA truthers, you should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parents and organizations.

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Autism

Supernova Momma on Positive Parenting While Black and Autistic

Posted on August 30, 2022September 13, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

“I have to be realistic about the community that I am nurturing in, and the community for my children and for the parents that I help, as a Black autistic woman.”

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ABA

Which Therapies Actually Help Autistic Children?

Posted on July 8, 2022September 11, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Why parents of autistic kids need to be cautious and thoughtful about the therapies they consider for their children.

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Autistic

Talking with Asian American autistic autism researcher Jenny Mai Phan

Posted on July 5, 2022May 29, 2023 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jenny Mai Phan is an Asian American autistic autism researcher, an Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) member, and the mother of four children, two of whom are autistic.

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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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acceptance

Have Faith In Your Children With Intellectual Disabilities

Posted on December 31, 2021March 12, 2023 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, 2021April 25, 2023 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.

Cover of the graphic novel Little Victories, by Yvon Roy.
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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abuse

Wouldn’t You Want to Know If Your Autistic Child Was Being Harmed?

Posted on August 10, 2021June 30, 2022 by Autistic Science Person

I truly do not know why some parents don’t want to listen to autistic adults. There is so much good autism information for parents from autistic adults, and so much of it is freely available, and yet the parents choose not to know. 

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The Stanford Neurodiversity Summit 2023's Human Rights panel on Neurodiversity, Discrimination, and the Legal System starts in less than 45 minutes! We will be moderating, and will be live-tweeting/skeeting as we can. #neurodiversity

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If you are a parent/caregiver for an autistic person, we beg you to consider our Autism Checklist of Doom: Things that may upset an autistic person & cause distress, but may not be obvious to a bystander. Let's help the autistic people in our lives thrive!

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