Category: DEI-AB
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Cavendish Spaces For Multi-Sensory Learners and Those with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
Cavendish learning spaces are based on flexibility, interaction, movement and the role of embodied responsive experiences. We reject the boundaries of traditional classroom settings and look at how they not only restrict embodied experiences but lead to disembodied experiences and can cause harm.
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Map of Monotropic Experiences
This map highlights 20 common aspects of monotropic experience. How many do you experience?
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Cavendish Space, NeuroTribes, and Steve Silberman
Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. The Life of Henry Cavendish DESPITE HIS ECCENTRIC COUTURE and the strange totem rising from his backyard, Henry Cavendish was not a wizard. He was, in eighteenth-century terms, a natural philosopher, or what we now call…
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for September 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 385 terms. We added 10 new terms in the past month. Here are the latest terms: Intelligence Southern Strategy Lost Cause Performative Neurodiversity (Neurodiversity Lite) Epistemic Trespassing Racial Weathering Tonic Masculinity Suicide Stim-Watching DEIB Previously: Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary…
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Participant preference was for autistic-led peer support.
This systematic review reports a clear preference among autistic adults for autistic-led, peer-led post-diagnostic support. There was also a preference for online communication, written communication, and asynchronous communication.
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Find Your Voice Self-Advocacy Cards
Find Your Voice is a family-driven initiative created by a team of neurodivergents: Designer Dad Steve, Early Years Educator Mom Tara, and their daughter, Miss A. Based in Melbourne, Australia, our journey began with a need—our daughter often experiences situational mutism, especially in high-stress environments, and we wanted to help her communicate more comfortably.
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for August 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 375 terms. We added 15 new terms in the past month. Several of these are for our “Systems of Power Learning Pathway”. Here are the latest terms: Learning Management System Becoming Schoolishness Transcendent Thinking Stim Listening Segregationist Discourse Eye Contact Horizontal…
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For a “Fair” Selection Everybody Has to Take the Same Exam: Please Climb That Tree
Sameness-based equity is a major obstacle to DEIB work. It’s one of our “10 Obstacles to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice”. Instead, we advocate for needs-based equity and collaborative niche construction. Fairness and Equity What’s fair depends on what people need. Explaining Fairness (LEANS resource 5.3) Niche Construction Niche Construction In Nature: Helping to ensure the thriving of an organism…
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Dance Party Time: A Comedic Variety Show for Kids Starring Neurodivergent Young Adults
I wanted to share my YouTube show with you – Dance Party Time – www.youtube.com/@dancepartytime. It’s a comedic variety show for kids that stars neurodivergent young adults and reflects their unique experience of the world and sense of humor. It is actually performed entirely by the folks it represents. The cast includes young alumni from…
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The Free Lil Pantry: Take what you need. Leave what you can.
Stimpunks Board Member Becky Hicks runs a free food pantry in New Orleans. Here’s a charming segment with Becky on local news that works the Mr. Rogers vibes. Algiers Point Free Lil Pantry celebrates 7 years of giving and receiving | WGNO.com The Algiers Point Free Lil Pantry was New Orleans’ first. And it’s been…
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14 Obstacles to DEI-AB and Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Getting human-centered, neurodiversity affirming, progressive practices into education, healthcare, and other systems is a battle, a grueling and grinding battle through bad narratives and bad framing. framing = mental structures that shape the way we see the world Our community of neurodivergent and disabled people encounters the following narratives over-and-over with dreadful regularity. They are…
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It’s not DEI’s Fault; It’s the Rot Economy
Blaming a coding bug on DEI is the dumbest thing ever. Have you met any coders? We are all weird as shit. We get paid like doctors to talk to melted sand. Two thousand years ago that gene was expressed as “person who talks to trees.” Pop the hood on any team of half decent…