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The Intense World Theory Of Autism And An Interview With The Markrams
At the ICare4Autism Conference, held in Jerusalem August 1st & 2nd, I had the opportunity to interview the neuroscientist team Henry and Kamila Markram who created The Intense World Theory for...
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Want to Know About Autism? Ask An Autistic
There’s a blog I love, written by E. called The Third Glance. I found it last winter. Written by a PHD student, E. describes her life, her passions, her studies, while detailing her thought process...
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Tackling That Troublesome Issue of ABA and Ethics
*No longer accepting comments on this post. If you do comment here it will be trashed. Comments are CLOSED. One of the best arguments against ABA is Michelle Dawson’s article, The Misbehaviour of...
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Non-Speaking With a Lot To Say
I am reading Ido in Autismland: Climbing out of Autism’s Prison by Ido Kedar. This is another one of those MUST READ books. Ido is a non-speaking Autistic teenager who learned to write his thoughts...
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More On ABA
I finally did something I’ve never done before. I’ve closed down any further comments on a post I wrote about the ethics of ABA. I continue to get up to thirty views on that post daily, now over a...
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Controversy and Commenting
Yesterday I quoted Ido Kedar, whose book, Ido in Autismland is his account of what it’s like for him as a non-speaking, Autistic, teenager. The quotes I used were specifically about his experience...
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Separation Anxiety
In our ongoing “spring cleaning” (which never seems to end) I came upon a large spiral notebook filled with notes from the dozen or so ABA therapists who came to our home beginning in November, 2004...
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Demanding Speech
Over the weekend I witnessed a young man who did not easily speak and when he did say a word, it was clear how hard he was having to work for that one syllable. Yet the people around him bombarded …...
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