#ActuallyAutistic retired technologist turned wannabe-sociologist. Equity literate education, respectfully connected parenting, passion-based learning, indie ed-tech, neurodiversity, social model of disability, design for real life, inclusion, open web, open source. he/they
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High School Anti-Behaviourism Behaviour Management Policy
Spectrum Gaming offers an “Anti-behaviourism Behaviour Management Policy” that manages to be both thorough and concise. It’s a practical introduction to some very helpful tools for supporting neurodivergent students. We recommend it as a foundation for any school’s general MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) policy. When we say we don’t believe in rewards, punishments or…
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Octavia Butler on Positive Obsession
Octavia Butler’s “positive obsession” reminds me of special interests and monotropism. God is Change,And in the end,God prevails.But meanwhile…Kindness eases Change.Love quiets fear.And a sweet and powerfulPositive obsessionBlunts pain,Diverts rage,And engages each of usIn the greatest,The most intenseOf our chosen struggles Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability…
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Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains begets epistemic justice and created serendipity.
This experimental piece leads with a very dense passage that uses specialist language from multiple semiotic domains. Terms are linked to our glossary. We fed the passage with links to AI several times and blended the output, resulting in an “unpacked” plain language version. The Passage Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains…
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A Neurobiological Basis for Progressive Education
As the host mentions in this excellent conversation, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work essentially provides the neurobiological basis for progressive education. Excerpted below are selected quotes from Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work. In short, learning is dynamic, social, and context dependent because emotions are, and emotions form a critical piece of how, what, when, and why people…
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What Is It like to Have a Gender Identity?
🚨This is not a drill!🚨 After years in the making, my paper on GI is finally out in MIND, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in the world, of all places. ⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵 @floral_ashes Florence Ashley published an important and useful…
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Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading”
“Science of Reading” particularly and #ResearchEd more generally, remind many of us in neurodiversity and disability communities of this from Alfie Kohn. The underpinnings of that ideology include: a focus only on observable behaviors that can be quantified, a reduction of wholes to parts, the assumption that everything people do can be explained as a…
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We Rebuild What You Destroy: A Celebration of The Linda Lindas and Punk DIY Ethos
We were really angry, and we decided to write a song about it.
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Love Is Everything: An Inclusion Song Featuring Nonspeaking Singers
“Love Is Everything (revisited)” by The Eddie Ray Band, featuring nonspeaking and minimally speaking singers, brings the feels and invites singing along, together. The notion of disability in our society is underscored by a bizarre conception of “independence”. It is time to celebrate our interdependence! Collaboration allows us to create genuinely safe spaces for autistic…
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It Take a Joyful Sound: New Wave, New Phrase, Neurodiversity
“Punks are outcasts from society. So are the Rastas. So they are bound to defend what we defend,” Marley concluded. Shortly thereafter, they began recording the single Punky Reggae Party, and by naming an underground social phenomenon, helped further it. Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party | Reggae | The…
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Finding Belonging in Collective Flow
Looking back with the vocabulary of neurodiversity, my career was much about seeking belonging in collective flow. Working on the WordPress core development team back in the early days of the project was a lesson in neurodiverse collaboration and developing collective flow. There’s nothing like working together toward a common goal to build community and…
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Space Holders and Learner Safety
A space holder is someone who can create and hold a safe space for a person so they can be themselves around them, knowing they will not be judged, they will be understood, valued and have an authentic meaningful connection. As adults, we need to try and be embodied, calm and grounded to support our…
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Care is not charity or kindness. Care is the deeply fraught, complex, abolitionist, political work of protecting one another and the planet.
We updated our care vocabulary page with selections from “Are We Teaching Care or Control?” Care is not charity or kindness. Care is the deeply fraught, complex, abolitionist, political work of protecting one another and the planet, meeting everyone’s needs in balance with the collective good, and keeping our communities safe without the use of…
