An Autistic Passion for Fashion
For a person with heightened sensory sensitivity, clothing and accessories can make or break an entire day out; here are suggestions for clothes, accessories, and miscellaneous accoutrements that might work.
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We’re Not Broken: Talking with Autistic Journalist Eric Garcia About Changing the Autism Conversation
“The way we diagnose kids overwhelmingly leads to Black and Latino kids getting diagnosed with behavioral disorders instead of autism. It also excludes a lot of women and femme people, to say nothing of transgender males and nonbinary people. We also ignore a lot of people for whom English is a second language.”
Two Autistics’ Experiences With Low-Gain Hearing Aids For Auditory Processing Problems
Overall, the hearing aids have been hugely helpful. It’s easier to participate in conversations and less tiring. I no longer feel like someone’s spraying me with a hose full of confusion and painful sounds—I’m just interacting! It’s also much easier to be around background noise.
Notes From Your Friendly Neighborhood Inclusionista
Being an “inclusionista” means understanding that just because something has been deemed “accessible” by ADA standards doesn’t meant it actually is, and that the battle continues.
When Adaptation Looks Like Laziness
For instance, autistic inertia means that it’s harder for autistic people than it is for other people to stop, start, and change activities.
When Autistic Kids Destroy Things: Insights and Advice
If parents can try to figure out why autistic children have the urges to break things, and then accommodate them as much as they can, everyone can have a much easier time. Not always, but in many cases.
OK, So We have AAC: Now What?
Think of your goal less about “doing it right” and more about “getting comfortable with AAC.” I’ve seen fear of being wrong all too often lead to no modeling. And I promise some modeling, modeling with mistakes, modeling slowly, all of it is better than no modeling.
How to Be The Teacher Our Autistic Students Need
We can be the teachers that our students need. We can celebrate neurodiversity while we hold ourselves to higher standards. We can provide robust education, equal access to the curriculum, and a life of autonomy and dreams. It starts with this…
What the College Admissions Scandal Reveals About Privilege Inequality For Disabled Students
Photo © US Department of Education | Creative Commons / Flickr [image: Three students at computer workstations, seen from behind.] Shannon Rosa Senior Editor Wealthy people using their privilege to bypass regular people problems like paying taxes is nothing new. But using that clout to exploit disability accommodations—to give their college-aspiring children truly unfair and
The “Out-of-Sync” Child Grows Up: An Autistic Perspective
Sara M. Acevedo [image: Book cover of The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Title in teal text, on background photo of five older kids running across a field, from behind.] The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up is the newest book from Carol Stock Kranowitz in her “Out-of-Sync” Child series. Subtitled “Coping With Sensory Processing Disorder in the