Tania Melnyczuk
Evidence-based autism therapy: Evidence of what, exactly?
Are we using the right measures to decide how good a therapy is?
My new art site
I've owned the domain alphabetania.com for ages, and I have also had a matching Twitter account for a long time too, but I used it as a private hiding space for years. Recently I decided to whip up a site, purge the contents of my Twitter refuge, open the padlock, and...
Beyond being “special”
Disabled adults exist.
There are even disabled teenagers out there who are anti-ableist intersectional disability rights activists.
Are those concepts new to you? Do they sound… political? Radical? Scary?
OK, let’s change the subject, then. Let’s talk about sunshine and teddybears and “special needs children”. Because then we don’t have to listen, right?*
* Except to the inspirational speaker who overcame the odds, the one who allows us to keep the world the same and encourages us to feel good about ourselves because he made it.