Showing posts with label For Educators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For Educators. 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...
Friday, August 30, 2019

That AAC on a plane story

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I want to talk about a thread that's going viral. I just had such an affirming experience. On my 8hr intl flight back from a conferen...
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Monday, December 4, 2017

What if they're stimming with the device?

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In response to the fact that it is not OK to take someone's communication device away, ever , apparently it is common to ask, what if t...
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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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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Meltdown

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Recently, a friend of mine asked what we wished others knew about meltdowns. (She blogged about meltdowns a while back, too. It was good ....
Monday, October 17, 2016

Plans, Executive (Dys)function, and Throwing Exceptions

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I've written before about  plans and routines , where a routine can become an implicit plan, and if a plan gets thrown off, I'm goi...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

#Pokémon Go and #Autism

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Like most games that get super popular, Pokémon Go has a lot of autistic people interested and playing. We play games, you know. And enjoy ...
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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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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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Monday, June 6, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 3

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I'm now reading Chapter 2. The previous part (Chapter 1) is here , and the start of my reading Uniquely Human  is here . I think I...
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