Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2022

The Intersectional Infinity Summit

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Today, I presented at the Intersectional Infinity Summit . Twice, actually.  First, I talked about "Exploring AAC as a Student & Ed...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Dimensionality Reduction

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Dimensionality reduction is something I deal with in math, statistics, and engineering. It comes up in my research. The idea is that when da...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

I'm apparently an #AAC talk example.

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I took a class on augmentative and alternative communication in fall 2017. It was a tiny class, with only three students, which made it pra...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Let's talk about fidget spinners and patterns.

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Fidget spinners are a fad. Thinkpieces about fidget spinners, therefore, are also a fad. That's how it works, right? On one side, ther...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Jobs for autistic strengths and "autistic strengths"

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Full disclosure: Real Social Skills got me thinking about this with some tweets ( first tweet , second tweet , third tweet ), and then a bl...
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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Legal protections and shaky ground

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I have, I think, finally figured out why I felt less  safe , not more, after turning in a formal accommodations letter for the first time t...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

In which I flip through my textbook and react to something

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I'm taking a course on motor speech disorders this semester. (Was this a good life choice? We'll find out! Were my other classes th...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Day 2 (not) in the inaccessible classroom

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Yesterday, lab was bad . Like, I wasn't able to stay kind of bad. And I wasn't too happy about that. Today, I didn't go to the...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Silence of Absence

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This Autistics Speaking Day, I had to leave the electrical engineering lab I'm a TA for early. It wasn't the professors fault, or t...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Switch out the capacitor

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This semester, my teaching assistantship is in electrical engineering. (And for as long as I'm a TA instead of a research assistant, I ...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

#AAC and the day taught lab without speech

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After just over two years teaching, it finally happened. I had to teach, and speech wasn't working. This is for a lab class, introducti...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016

Disability in the Graduate Assistants Contract

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Two years ago, I suggested to my graduate assistants union that disability and accommodations should be covered in our contracts. I coul...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

(Formal) Accommodations

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For the first time in my life, I have formally turned an accommodations letter from Disability Services in to a professor. My accommodation...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Wrap-Up

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I read Uniquely Human , and I went through it chapter by chapter, plus all that material that's not in a chapter. At the end of it all,...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 9

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Still reading Uniquely Human . Please let it be over soon. (This is chapter 8. There are 12 chapters. I get to The Real Experts chapter aft...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 8

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Still reading Uniquely Human . Still going blarglefeh at behaviorizing descriptions of autistic folks , even when the stuff we're doing...
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 7

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I'm still reading Uniquely Human . I am getting very tired of running into the Exact. Same. Problems. every chapter. Can I just at this...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 6

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I continue to read Uniquely Human . I feel like I am repeating myself a lot as I do so. The prior installation in the series can be found h...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 5

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I'm reading Uniquely Human . The start of the series is here , and the previous part here . I've been loving the comments so far --...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 4

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The saga continues! Part 3 is here , and if you want to go back to the beginning, that's here. Chapter 3 is titled "Enthusiasms....
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