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Neurodiversity-affirming language: A letter to your child’s support network
- Advocacy Blogs Tip sheets & infographics
- January 31, 2022
Have you ever wished your child’s teachers, therapists and social workers – or even extended family and friends – would use uplifting, self-affirming terminology when discussing your Autistic child? The Reframing Autism team have, so we created this printable letter full of respectful, Autistic-informed language to share with your child’s support network.
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Flourishing in Education
- Advocacy Blogs Tip sheets & infographics
- January 28, 2022
“The only way we can expect Autistic students to flourish as their authentic selves in education is by designing our classrooms, schools and places of learning with the understanding that neurodiversity is the rule, not the exception.” In this insightful blog, US-based educator, McAlister Greiner Huynh, also known as the Neurodivergent Teacher on Facebook and Instagram shares her talk made at the Autistic Flourishing Symposium on how we can help Autistic students flourish in their education.
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Creating Actually Autistic Care
In this guest blog, Autistic author Josephine Moon describes her journey to establishing Actually Autistic Care, a therapy provider which offers individuals Autistic connection, support, retreats and therapy led by Autistic individuals who truly understand what it means to walk through a neurotypical word with a neurodivergent brain.
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“I’m Proud to be a Little Bit Different”: The Effects of Autistic Individuals’ Perceptions of Autism and Autism Social Identity on Their Collective Self-esteem, a summary for non-academics
- Blogs Research summaries
- January 12, 2022
In this open access research coming out of the UK, Rosalind Cooper and colleagues surveyed Autistic adults. The aim was to understand how perceiving Autistic attributes positively and identifying as Autistic and as part of the Autistic community might be associated with wellbeing.
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What we think about LGBTIQA+ rights
- Easy English documents Position statements
- January 04, 2022
An Easy English version of our “Position statement on Autistic-LGTBQIA+ identity”, produced by Scope (Aust) Ltd.