Autism News, 2017/06/11

Because I have been remiss in making these news posts promptly, we’ll start off with some of the tail end of Autism Month:

• Greg Love explains the problem with talking about a “coming avalanche” of autistic adults


• Paula Durbin-Westby, founder of Autism Acceptance Day, reflects on seven years of autism acceptance

Jobs:

• Frances Ryan on looking for work with a neurological disability


• Real Social Skills on the idea that all autistic people want repetitive jobs


• Alyssa Hillary distinguishes between ableist and non-ableist approaches to autistic jobseeking


• Kerima Cevik on where she sees her non-speaking son in five years – and why health care providers who ask that question are doing it wrong


• Sonia Boue on networking

Politics:

• ASAN released a plain-language toolkit for understanding Medicaid


• JoeyMom explains articulately why Medicaid is important for her autistic son


• The UK just had a big election – here’s what their four major political parties said about disability


• Ontario has announced a new strategy for employing disabled people


• Canada’s auditor general finds that too many Canadians are being denied disability benefits for spurious reasons

Science:

• John Elder Robison explains why so much autism research studies things that seem obvious


• Nicholette Zeliadt on the role of motor difficulties in autism


• Shannon des Roches Rosa on the shift towards neurodiversity at the autism research conference IMFAR

Writing and media:

• Chloe Smith on disability and Doctor Who


• Carey Dunne profiles the autistic author Dani Alexis Ryskamp


• Sparrow M. Rose reviews “There’s More Than One Way Home“


• Rose Lemberg and Corey Alexander have advice on Story Hospital for autistic writers

Misc:

• What happens when airlines damage expensive mobility devices


• Clarissa Kripke on why Supported Decision Making is better than conservatorship


• Kerima Cevik on why “should we make a child comfortable or challenge them?” is the wrong question to ask


• Alyssa Hillary says some nuanced stuff about the fidget spinner fad

Sad Things:

• Clare Hughes on what happens to autistic people in prison


• Lydia Z.X. Brown on a recent case of education discrimination, plus other ableist things


• A new study in the UK says that people with autism or learning disabilities experience more hate crimes than any other disabled group


• A group of care homes in the UK were shut down because of widespread abuse involving isolation rooms