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Autistic autism, neurodiversity researcher. Disability rights advocate. Developmental psychologist; Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He/him. Views my own
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You can download the accepted version for free here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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New follow-up school-based practitioner paper to our Avoiding Ableist Language: Suggestions for Autism Researchers paper. We explain and examine ableism in schools using applied examples and provide suggestions to help school professionals adopt an anti-ableist stance. pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

Recognizing and Resisting Ableist Language in Schools: Suggestions for School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists and Related Professionals
Recognizing and Resisting Ableist Language in Schools: Suggestions for School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists and Related Professionals

Purpose: The language that school professionals use to describe disabled students can reveal and perpetuate ableist assumptions. Professionals' l...

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there was a new study published *today* in Nature showing that state-level anti-trans laws increase suicide among trans kids up to 72%. when we say that the New York Times (and other rags of equal repute) is killing us, that's because *IT IS LITERALLY KILLING US*

State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA
State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA

Nature Human Behaviour - From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts...

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Today in HELL YES RESEARCH: What Neurodiversity supporters don’t want are normalization or “behavior reduction” intervention goals. What they DO want are adaptive skills and well-being goals! They want autistic kids and adults to THRIVE! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...#neurodiversity#autism

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White all caps text at the top reads, "Today in hell yes, research!"

Next, white text reads, "What Neurodiversity supporters don’t want are normalization or “behaviour reduction” intervention goals. What they DO want 

are adaptive skills and well-being goals"

In the lower right corner is white text reading, "Dwyer, Gurba, and Gillespie-Lynch, tinyurl.com/NeurodiversityGoals, @ThinkingAutism". In the latter the "@" is red.
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They did cite a letter to the editor Robert, I, and others worked on that attributed the origins of the movement primarily to Jim Sinclair. I think sadly not enough people are aware despite Jim’s enormous impact and your book chapter.

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Cultural imperialism: Western practices often get imported to the Global South without regard for e.g. wise Indigenous epistemologies - relational ethics of interdependence of the beauty & harmony of the Navajo and the Māori's recognition of autistic people as in their own space and time. Free paper

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Steven Kapp
@drstevenkapp.bsky.social
Autistic autism, neurodiversity researcher. Disability rights advocate. Developmental psychologist; Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. He/him. Views my own
288 followers242 following33 posts