Because I have been remiss in making these news posts promptly, we’ll start off with some of the tail end of Autism Month:
- Greg Love explains the problem with talking about a “coming avalanche” of autistic adults
- Paula Durbin-Westby, founder of Autism Acceptance Day, reflects on seven years of autism acceptance
Jobs:
- Frances Ryan on looking for work with a neurological disability
- Real Social Skills on the idea that all autistic people want repetitive jobs
- Alyssa Hillary distinguishes between ableist and non-ableist approaches to autistic jobseeking
- Kerima Cevik on where she sees her non-speaking son in five years – and why health care providers who ask that question are doing it wrong
- Sonia Boue on networking
Politics:
- ASAN released a plain-language toolkit for understanding Medicaid
- JoeyMom explains articulately why Medicaid is important for her autistic son
- The UK just had a big election – here’s what their four major political parties said about disability
- Ontario has announced a new strategy for employing disabled people
- Canada’s auditor general finds that too many Canadians are being denied disability benefits for spurious reasons
Science:
- John Elder Robison explains why so much autism research studies things that seem obvious
- Nicholette Zeliadt on the role of motor difficulties in autism
- Shannon des Roches Rosa on the shift towards neurodiversity at the autism research conference IMFAR
Writing and media:
- Chloe Smith on disability and Doctor Who
- Carey Dunne profiles the autistic author Dani Alexis Ryskamp
- Sparrow M. Rose reviews “There’s More Than One Way Home“
- Rose Lemberg and Corey Alexander have advice on Story Hospital for autistic writers
Misc:
- What happens when airlines damage expensive mobility devices
- Clarissa Kripke on why Supported Decision Making is better than conservatorship
- Kerima Cevik on why “should we make a child comfortable or challenge them?” is the wrong question to ask
- Alyssa Hillary says some nuanced stuff about the fidget spinner fad
Sad Things:
- Clare Hughes on what happens to autistic people in prison
- Lydia Z.X. Brown on a recent case of education discrimination, plus other ableist things
- A new study in the UK says that people with autism or learning disabilities experience more hate crimes than any other disabled group
- A group of care homes in the UK were shut down because of widespread abuse involving isolation rooms