Posts Tagged ‘Self advocacy’
Autism News Roundup, October 2015
A lot has been going on in recent weeks related to autism awareness and the ASD Community, from events to support and improve the everyday lives of autistic individuals to research that may some day help reduce the affects of the disorder and improve the quality of their lives dramatically. We thought a look at…
Read MoreAutistic Self Advocacy Network: Action for the Disability Rights Movement
One of Saved By Typing’s main tenets is that autistic individualss, both verbal and nonverbal, have the same rights to a good education and social services as anyone else, that school systems need to act from a principle of presumed competence, and that, in order to achieve these goals, they may need to approach and…
Read MoreAutism Support Groups: Building Autistic Community – What Autistic Culture Can Mean To You
Our previous post in the 2012 ICI Autism Summer Institute series, ICI Autism Summer Institute Workshop: Communication and Inclusion – Principles for Going Forward, focused on strategies for transforming the landscape of possibility to achieve full and free access to communication and inclusive education. Co-hosted by Syracuse University School of Education’s Institute on Communication and…
Read MoreICI Autism Summer Institute: Workshops Overview
In our last post, ICI Autism Summer Institute: Training and Information for FC Typers, Parents, Trainers and Educators, we presented an outline of the Keynote presentations and workshops that took place at the 2012 Autism Summer Institute, co-hosted by Syracuse University School of Education’s Institute on Communication and Inclusion and the University of New Hampshire…
Read MoreSelf advocacy via Facilitated Communication
Watch Johnathan telling it like it is at a DDS hearing “Johnathan telling it like it is at the DDS hearing on November 2, 2011. This was his first time using facilitated communication to self advocate, with the help of Dr. Linda Rammler. He did a great job!” Description from YouTube [dt_divider style=”thick”…
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