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Gestures and glances

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,...

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Preventing, treating and managing dementia

hen my father got dementia, the incompetent psychiatrist (a dementia specialist!) didn't tell us about the latest research. He probably didn't even read it. Later, a neurologist lambasted this psychiatrist for his inappropriate treatment of my...

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Your hidden purpose

he universe is not designed with you as its epicentre, so not everything that happens to you 'happens for a reason' that involves you. You are not here to uncover your hidden purpose, to discover the reason you were born based on clues strewn...

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It’s up to you

t's up to you to take responsibility for changing that part of the world over which you have some influence, changing it for the better. If you wait till you are exemplary before you start setting yourself a good example, you will live down to the...

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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.

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Our overwhelming concern

"Our overwhelming concern must be for the health and the well-being of all South Africans, particularly the poor, the elderly and the vulnerable. The actions we take and the decisions that we make must be informed by this imperative." President Cyril Ramaphosa I...

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Bad ABA and good ABA

People say that in the autism industry, there’s “good ABA” and “bad ABA”, and one shouldn’t write off an entire profession based on a few bad apples.

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