Tag: positive niche construction
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Exceeding Least Restrictive Environment with Niche Construction and the Honor of Legibility
UDL creates a learning environment that is the least restrictive and most culturally responsive, trauma-informed environment for all students .If Equity is a Priority, UDL is a Must | Cult of Pedagogy In our little community of neurodivergent and disabled people, we try to go beyond “least restrictive environment” via “niche construction”. Here’s how we…
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This Is My Space: Collaborative Niche Construction in Psychologically Safe Space
This is my space. It allows me to have control over one small part of a traumatic and offensive world. AuDHD and me: My nesting habits – Emergent Divergence I love that quote from David Gray-Hammond at Emergent Divergence. It nicely distills our Cavendish Space and collaborative niche construction advocacy. I added the quote to…
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Peer Respite
A peer-run respite center is a non-clinical, completely voluntary service operated by people with their own stories of mental health recovery, trauma, hospitalization, incarceration, substance use, homelessness or some combination of these. “When you’re in a psych hospital, they take everything — down to your shoelaces — for your protection. Then they slap a diagnosis…
