By Leah Zitter — 2021
To effectively communicate with autistic students, here’s what IT teams need to understand to be inclusive.
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Maggie Coughlin shares some lessons she’s learned in understanding her own autism and how to work with her neurodiversity and that of the students she teaches.
Good teachers helped me to achieve success. I was able to overcome autism because I had good teachers.
I put a great deal of emphasis on employment because I see so many very intelligent people with autism and Asperger's syndrome without satisfying jobs. A satisfying profession made life have meaning for me. I am what I do and think instead of what I feel.
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Being disabled means hundreds of thousands of people believe they always know better than you do.
The bodies of lonely people are markedly different from the bodies of non-lonely people.
We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
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Swami Mukundananda, Founder of JKYog, world-renowned yogi, spiritual teacher, and mind management authority, takes his teachings to the cutting edge of the future - the next generation.
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” ~ Bruce Lee The premise of his philosophy was efficiency—complete and utter efficiency of the soul.
ADHD, Twice Exceptionality, and the Benefits of Intensity.
Neurodiversity is a fresh way to see difference. Is it right for you?