An Autistic Perspective: Top tips for what to do and what not to do for ASD kids and teens!
byThere are times when caregivers, family members or total strangers speak up before we have answered the question ourselves. While we are trying hard…
Autism Shift
The Autism Shift is about shifting our perceptions about autism
A mom speaks: We need to stop thinking of autistics as anything other than human
byAutism is not behavior, it is not your senses of hearing, touch and vision, and it is not a disease. It is a way…
New research relies on first-person accounts from autistic children about sensory issues
byKirby’s study is important for many reasons. Going directly to the source, instead of relying on third party accounts, is what many of us…
A Harvard graduate speaks: For inclusion to work education systems need to change
bySimply allowing special needs students to sit in classrooms with typical students is not inclusion. Forcing students to change who they are, in order…
Lori Shayew: We must shift our views about Autism
byby Debra Muzikar “I remember the time I shifted my own viewpoint about autism,” Lori Shayew says. “It was in 1994. I was working…
Special Education is not about funding. It’s about the people.
byKevin, now nineteen, is in a transition program in his home town. The program has the students taking a bus two days a week…
Autistic People: Sensitive or Perceptive Revolutionaries?
byBy Erik Estabrook I’d like to start off this blog by stating how great it is to interview and become acquainted with the great…
At Society’s Growing Edge – Dr. Colin Zimbleman
byby Colin Zimbleman, Ph.D. from “The Art of Autism: Shifting Perceptions” compiled by Debra Hosseini “Here the artist’s relative lack of adaptation turns out…