Center for Understanding @c4ucontact
The Center for Understanding seeks to expand understanding and neuroaffirming approaches to engagement with autistic persons and their communities. New York Joined September 2022-
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Dear @Macys do you have any empathy? My husband nearly died 5 times in the last two weeks with cardiac issues. No, I didn't get my returns in on time. Now I can't even exchange them? Do better.
I'm expanding my search for Social Security Disability Applicants to women meeting the announced criteria who have applied for disability (sans support) in the last TEN years. This is an expansion from 5 in the initial recruitment. aussw.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N…
If you don’t already love Welsh actor Michael Sheen, you just might after finding out about his warm, witty, and enthusiastic repartee with 35 neurodivergent interrogators in the BBC special The Assembly. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2… #Neurodiversity
I am gutted. Another black autistic child needlessly murdered by law enforcement. people.com/apple-valley-t…
A List of Accommodations for IEPs and 504s: "Unlike modifications, which change what students are expected to learn based on their abilities, accommodations are designed to eliminate barriers to full participation in school." At Undivided: undivided.io/resources/list…
A HUGE thank you to The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network as well as to all of my colleagues and peers for putting out my recruitment. Today I am happy to be going through over 60 new respondents thanks to all of you!
REPOST. Needing 4-6 additional participants. Please share. This is the link to determine eligibility. Note: This is a US only study. Thank you! aussw.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N…
I still have some openings. Please share widely! Thanks all!
I am happy to announce the initiation of recruitment for the following dissertation study. Here are the inclusion criteria and the link to ascertain eligibility. Please share if you feel so led. aussw.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9N…
Harms of ABA-based procedures, for autistics & others--"challenging behavior is susceptible to relapse phenomena" "practitioners should be vigilant for the recurrence of challenging behavior during generalization" "renewal effects may be persistent" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ja… etc
Celebration...and unconditional love (for self and your child) demonstrated below
Why Is the Autistic Unemployment Rate So High? "The 85% unemployment rate (among college-educated Autistic adults) is massive—the general U.S. population’s unemployment rate (at all education levels) is only 4.5%." @UnstrangeMind at TPGA. thinkingautismguide.com/2018/02/why-is… #neurodiversity
#BetterWaysThanABA: "Few studies evaluate autistic kids' negative experiences of [ABA], making it hard to conduct an adequate cost-benefit analysis. Those studies that report kids making long-term gains in functioning are of middling scientific quality." city-journal.org/article/are-we…
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265 Followers 1K Following Clinical Psychology PhD student | @bsosumd alum Dog Mom to Daphne Opinions are my own@reginaroamz @damechatprrr @c4ucontact @childmindinst I mean, yeah...? No disagreement there but it's easy for NTs to equate autistic meltdowns as akin to a kid crying because they want a chocolate bar and then think ignoring meltdowns will train their child to not have autistic traits
@mezzozydeco @damechatprrr @c4ucontact @childmindinst I’m actually agreeing with you! Yes behaviourism is really cruel to autistic children. And NT children also don’t like being left to “cry it out” all around a horrible strategy
@c4ucontact Yes indeed, as can echo chamber corridors be overwhelming. More the dismissiveness in his response to concerns that I found disturbing. You may be missing context?
It's finally happening! I'll be defending my dissertation (on decreased sound tolerance in autistic and non-autistic adults) on May 9th at 12 PM CDT. Those in the Nashville area can join in Light Hall 202, and those who want to tune in remotely can find a link at the bottom of…
Join us Thursday, May 9 at 12:00pm in 202 LH or Zoom for the Dissertation Defense of Zack Williams (@QuantPsychiatry)! He will present "Integrating the Nature of Decreased Sound Tolerance ("Sound Sensitivity") in Autistic and Non-autistic Adults" completed in the Neuro Program.
Looking forward to presenting a new #autisticawebinar tomorrow! If you want to know more about what the new suicide prevention strategy means for #autistic people and be involved in the next steps then come to this free online webinar. Register below 👇
New #AutisticaWebinar 📣 @Sarah_NottsUni will discuss what the suicide prevention strategy says & why it's falling short of expectations. As well as how autistic people can be involved in the next steps of the strategy to ensure real change. Book: eventbrite.co.uk/e/influencing-…
Eliana Grossman, a talented scholar & artist I've been lucky to mentor, very successfully defended her dissertation, about neurodiversity and creativity, on Tuesday.
I just asked Google if there is a word for a short prayer and it came back with ejaculation or ejaculatory prayer and I don't think I can use either one.
In the future, Would you want to stay 100% human or are you open to cyborg, implants, artificial organs, etc. all that jazz?
@cavesofsteel I think this is arguably not a hot take (though it depends who you talk to). I do think it’s important to consider the similarities in core traits (sensory, behavioral + comm.), while also acknowledging the differences.
@c4ucontact @cavesofsteel It’s the same amount of syllables too.
@cavesofsteel I mean, I don’t think it is a disorder, but I am absolutely disabled.
Popping up to share my news that I am pregnant, as a gestational #surrogate for some wonderful parents. Baby due in the summer. All glorious. and here's a blog about my experiences of a high-risk pregnancy in our under-resourced NHS... medium.com/@suefletcherwa…
Parents/caregivers, please stop forcing autistic & disabled kids (and adults) to do things "for their own good" by non-autistic/disabled standards. Just got back from an "accessible" event in which a young person cried the entire time but their adult refused to let them leave. :(
@ChrisHopsonNHS @DrK_W1984 @NHSEngland @NuffieldTrust @BBCr4today Wonderful to see focus on ADHD, but for max efficiency services need to be neurodevelopmental & transdiagnostic. Co-occurrence is norm, not exception. Makes no sense to have separate ADHD & autism pathways, never mind Tourette’s, dyspraxia, hypermobility. They’re all connected
@c4ucontact Thank you. While advocates of the Neurodiversity model (even acknowledged these days by the very medically conventional Simon Baron-Cohen) reject overly stigmatizing, pathologizing terms for autism, most do accept that it can be disabling. This has been widely misrepresented.
I was asked to see a 4 week old baby in GP clinic yesterday. I’d just had some bad news about my infertility the day before. I spoke to my supervisor and asked if someone else could see that patient as my emotions were too fresh. She agreed. Do you think this is reasonable?
@c4ucontact I think you may have misread/misinterpreted. I was agreeing with you, for the most part.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're in academia, there's a decent chance you're in a toxic workplace. There is far too much tolerance for shady behavior within academia. Commenters, back me up here: raise your hand if you've witnessed toxicity in academia.
@WhistleblowingT The parents almost certainly do "get it." If you're overwhelmed/under resourced, try addressing the folks who can actually do anything about it. Those parents cannot. They're probably at least as dissatisfied and burned out by the state of things as you are.
@WhistleblowingT shame on you for publicly acknowledging the dysfunctional working conditions teachers and students face as a result of understaffing, defunding, and other attacks on public education