Parents of autistic children and autistic adults continue to be excluded and derided. Hearing other autistic people’s experiences and sharing our voices is important for acceptance. April is Autism Acceptance Month, and this year’s theme is "Celebrating Differences." At the time of...
Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The question is stark: Is autism ancient, a genetic variation that demands acceptance and celebration? Or is it new and disablin...
That’s the whole purpose of APRIL, AUTISM ACCEPTANCE MONTH. It used to be Autism Awareness Month, but that was back when people saw this as something new in childhood. Now we don’t really remember a world without autism. Today we celebrate neurodiversity each April with blue lights. The ...
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The 2021 theme, “America’s Recovery: Powered by Inclusion,” reflects the importance of ensuring that people with disabilities… Read More #ActuallyAutistic PerspectiveDecember 5, 2019
attention… For those ASD children being bullied at school, they do not report to parents immediately. They are upset and do not know how to speak. It may take them a month to organize the details of what happened about the bullying.” (Participant 19, Mother, 42, Diploma; Son, 9, ...
To ensure facilitators’ quality in the long run, MTs believed that workers, such as school-based social workers, with deep knowledge and experience in developmentally delayed children would be suitable facilitators. Another MT mentioned that the facilitator’s acceptance of the child-parent relationshi...
Great strides have been made to improve awareness and acceptance of autism, including reconceptualising autism as a condition with considerable accompanying strengths (Cope & Remington, 2022). Nevertheless, there is still a need to understand the strengths and challenges inherent to the autistic ...
In addition to the online materials, Sesame Workshop said that it will offer free educational storybooks as well as meet-and-greets with Julia and her friends at Sesame Place theme parks, Busch Gardens and SeaWorld Orlando in honor of Autism Acceptance Month in April. Art activities and meet...
Age of Autismon June 17, 2024 at 06:00 AM inComments (0) Love Your Neighbor, even if he's Dr. Fauci A "Love Your Neighbor" meme is circulating as a way to promote acceptance. So we added justone more lineat the very bottom, to make it more... inclusive. What do you think?Ta...
These MBIs aim to enhance an individual’s present-moment awareness and acceptance in a broad sense, and thus seem to be effective in targeting a range of mental health symptoms, with a neat beneficial effect. Mindfulness also positively affects cognitive functioning, such as attention and ...