Tag: cavendish space
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Building Neurodivergent-Affirming Cultures of Regulation: Reflections from a Cavendish Space Workshop
Cavendish Space: a way of describing and designing environments that adapt to neurodivergent nervous systems rather than forcing neurodivergent people to adapt to rigid, sensory-hostile, socially coercive spaces. Cavendish Space is the relational space where conditions, context, and capacities interact. At the heart of Cavendish Space is a simple but profound question: do we feel…
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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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An Inclusive Conference Model for Our Times
I am presenting virtually at UDL Con about our Virtual First approach to the affordances of Discord as they relate to Conference to Restore Humanity. Between now and, say, CTRH at the end of July, can you send me specifics I can relay to attendees of the UDL Con event for how CTRH works for…
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The Inclusive Power of the Dimmer Switch
The “Alternative spaces” section of “Multiple Multisensory Rooms: Myth Busting the Magic” offers guidance on creating sensory spaces on any budget. A striking similarity in these books and studies about accommodating the senses is the power of the dimmer switch. One of the most powerful features of a multisensory room is the ability to control…
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A Short Rumination on Our Journey to Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
We fought for the right to learn differently, and lost. The journey was instructive. We found ourselves along the way. We found community among other neurodivergent and disabled people. We found vocabulary, vocabulary like “neurodiversity”, “neurodivergent”, “neurotypical”, and, more recently, “neuroqueer”. …intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be…
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Neuroqueering Learning Spaces: An Exploration
This piece is by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms. “Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” Walker, 2021 neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the ‘right way’ to be neuroqueer = subvert, defy, disrupt,…
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Design for nervous systems, not aesthetics. What Is Cavendish Space? Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Cavendish Space is a regulation-centered learning environment built around three spatial archetypes: Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and…
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Changelog: For an autistic person it’s about finding the right niche
For an autistic person ‘it’s about finding the right niche’, because ‘if you have a particular interest, you can really thrive in a particular niche.’ Happier on the outside? Discourses of exclusion, disempowerment and belonging from former autistic school staff We updated “Niche Construction”, “Cavendish Space”, and “⛺️🔥 Cavendish Space: Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes…
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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…
