We often think of preferential sitting of being close to the board or close to the teacher. But there are students that would rather sit at the back of the room, that would be their preference, so they don't have to worry about what's going on behind them. The more specific we can be when writing accommodations the more effective they'll be for students.
Charmaine Thaner
There are a range of opinions on People First vs. Identity First Language, even among autistic people and more broadly disabled people.
Carlyle
King
A parent needs to take more of the position of helping their autistic child amplify their voice versus being their voice.
Charmaine Thaner
The first thing is to respect your kid's privacy and insist that everybody else, respect your kid.
Carlye King
Some of my teachers can even be counted among my bullies.
Carlye King
A lot of the therapies, especially those that claim to cure us, actually coerce autistic children into appearing non autistic, which means forcing the use of this camouflage.
Carlye King
I want to tell you the real cost of this because it's not the energy that it takes to do it, the real cost of the camouflage is that the outward person that people see, is not the actual person even if people like this newly changed newly cured autistic person, they don't actually like the person. And that's tremendously hurtful, because we all love to be loved as we are.
Carlyle King
We often make judgments if somebody doesn't have verbal communication, that they also have intellectual disabilities,
or they don't have something to say. It's up to us to stop those judgments and to really learn from others.
Charmaine Thaner
Why can't we teach society at large to get to know people that are different and appreciate the differences?
Carlyle King
