Teachers need to understand how
autistic people think.
Autistic people think in black and white and therefore interpret everything literally.
Not exact matches
I
think of how every Latino kid taunted by classmates, every soldier sent to war, every
autistic kid who will lose his therapy when ACA is repealed, every black man shot by police is somebody else's baby boy, somebody else's most important
person in the world.
This growing alliance of
autistic individuals, their parents and researchers, all of whom have embraced the concept of neurodiversity, proposes that autism be regarded as a valuable part of humanity's genetic legacy and that society needs to accept and adapt to
people who
think differently.
Over the past decade or so, a growing
autistic pride movement has been pushing the idea that
people with autism aren't disabled, they just
think differently to «neurotypicals».
While they found that
people with high
autistic traits produced fewer responses when generating alternative solutions to a problem - known as «divergent
thinking» - the responses they did produce were more original and creative.
Imagine what could be possible for
autistic people and their families if, instead of offering a $ 100,000 prize to anyone who can prove that vaccines are safe, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Robert De Niro invested that money in services that could improve the quality of the lives that they
think are so tragically altered by autism?
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one - stop source for carefully curated, evidence - based information from autism parents,
autistics, and autism professionals.
About Blog
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one - stop source for carefully curated, evidence - based information from autism parents,
autistics, and autism professionals.
This powerpoint presentation provides a list of famous
people who are
thought to be
autistic.
So I
think the main thing to understand about autism is that it is a very large spectrum and that there are simply too many differences among each
autistic person to really generalize the disorder in any way.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one - stop source for carefully curated, evidence - based information from autism parents,
autistics, and autism professionals.
Standing against a glittery curtain and wearing a wig cap, Tsang reads a statement written by
autistic blogger Amanda Baggs: «The
thinking of
people like me is only taken seriously if we learn your language.»
Your attempts at every opportunity to insert and promote your «
autistic thinking» meme is not getting any responses — because
people aren't buying in, and are too polite and otherwise occupied to deal with the irritation.
About Blog
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the resource we wish we'd had when autism first became part of our lives: a one - stop source for carefully curated, evidence - based information from autism parents,
autistics, and autism professionals.