Tag: accessibility
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Stimpunks Community Art: “Mobile – Home” by Heike Blakley
What it feels like answering my phone. A sense of dread washes over me each time my phone rings and is quickly followed by anxiety due to time frame response.
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #2: Healthcare Access
This issue gathers recent research on healthcare access for autistic people. These studies confirm autistic common knowledge about our healthcare accessibility struggles and how to ameliorate them.
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Stimpunks Podcast Episode 1: The Logistics of Inclusion
cofounder Inna is the motive force behind our efforts to gain inclusion into our systems and institutions. In this episode, she talks about the logistics of inclusion, including: Transcript Respecting […]
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Accessibility, Access Intimacy, and Forced Intimacy
These pieces on access intimacy and forced intimacy by Mia Mingus very much resonate with my experience. Forced intimacyForced intimacy is a cornerstone of how ableism functions in an able […]
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CHAMPS and the Compliance Classroom
I wrote this in 2016 after witnessing a CHAMPS classroom. My stomach dropped when I saw CHAMPS at our elementary school. “Eyes front, knees front, closed mouth” leapt off the […]
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Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Neurodiversity is an equity imperative and is critical in shifting the culture of teaching and learning. We offer several series and courses on neurodiversity in the classroom. This is what our community of neurodivergent and disabled people wants to say to educators. This is 100s of hours of free and open professional development, deeply and…
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Five Ways to Welcome All Bodyminds to Your Learning Event
We have detailed accessibility checklists and recommendations in our course “Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual“, but for this piece we reduce down to five […]
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May 2022, so far, at Stimpunks: New Pages for the Website
We started a Research page that opens with a spicy assessment of the status quo of autism studies, “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges“. We started an Access […]
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Additions to Our Philosophy on Tech Ethics, Algorithmic Oppression, Power, Accommodations, Accessibility, Care, Inclusion, Diagnosis, and Reframing
Our philosophy page collects quotes we steer by. They are compasses and stars that align us on our mission. We recently added quotes on tech ethics, algorithmic oppression, powerThe 20th […]
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Accommodations: Individualized Responses to Structural Design Problems
The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual. @laurenancona Yet on a programmatic basis, disability policy and other social programs remain enmeshed, even at their best, in accommodation models, […]
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Inclusive Meetings, Classes, and Presentations with Access Notes, Bodymind Affirmations, and Small Changes
I’ve noticed a trend among neurodivergent and disabled speakers, notably Lydia X. Z. Brown and Jonathan Mooney, of prefacing their presentations with an access note and a bodymind affirmation. They […]