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Truly S. (notincleveland.bsky.social) @hotincleveland ·

3 Dec

@AutisminBlack @thinkingautism This is part of why I keep advocating for traditional public schools as a school psychologist, and wouldn't want to work anywhere else. They are the ONLY schools required by law to educate special needs students freely and appropriately. They can't charge tuition or reject an IEP

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Ann Memmott PgC MA (She/They) 🌈 @annmemmott ·

10 Dec

On other social media: A well known person's son is behaving in a possibly neurodivergent way. Someone said he might be neurodivergent. There were a huge number of people who told them not to make such 'cruel comments'.
Mmm.
So much to do, isn't there.

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thinkingautism.bsky.social @thinkingautism ·

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Disappointed in @MotherJones & its "robots for autism" article with zero autistic voices: It not only frames ABA as a "best established" practice& uses the junk term "profound autism"—but dismisses the complexities of facilitated communication by linking to an anti-FC crank site.

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shannonrosa.bsky.social @shannonrosa ·

10 Dec

What I'd like your takeaway to be, ideally, is that "Neurodiversity is incredibly inclusive, and as the parent of a high-support autistic teen, I think that #neurodiversity is MORE important for people like him—to have other people recognize that he has value as a human."

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