How much do psychologists understand about their patients’ real lives and coping mechanisms?
How much do psychologists know?
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autism
Working definition of autism
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disability—in other words, it’s about how our nervous system has developed.
Gestures and glances
I have never met an autistic person who uses a letterboard or keyboard to communicate saying that they were happier when they were only using a few gestures and glances. Parents who deny their children the right to develop the motor skills for communicating in full,...
When you’re autistic, they try to kill your questions
A core feature of being autistic is enquiry, i.e. searching for understanding; asking why. ABA is designed to wipe out the why.
About the Autism Western Cape petition to Parliament
Please sign the petition and join the march.
Do want your child’s therapy to be effective?
Then take a conscious decision to become anti-ableist.
The path forward
A letter upon hearing of the imminent launch of your book. Content warning: child abuse.
For psychologists wanting to work with autistic people
If you want to work with nonspeaking autistic people in the field of psychology, you may want to do some of these things.
Reframing “severe” autism
nonspeaking autistic activist Damon Kirsebom published a video which shows, in a nutshell, what “severe autism” means for many “severely autistic” people.
So you made a thing about disabled people? Okaaay…
Disabled people are entirely entitled to criticise your poor stakeholder engagement while you are doing poor stakeholder engagement. They don’t have to wait for you to publish or launch the product of poor stakeholder engagement before they criticise poor stakeholder engagement.
Evidence-based autism therapy: Evidence of what, exactly?
Are we using the right measures to decide how good a therapy is?