We Are All on the Same Side: Unite the Spectrum

• By: Robert Naseef, PhD Clinical Psychologist, Author, and Parent of an Adult Autistic Son Stephen M. Shore, EdD Clinical Associate Professor of Special Education, Author, and Autistic Individual Adelphi University
• April 12th, 2024
• acceptance, access to services, action, actually autistic, advocacy, appreciation, awareness, division, empowerment, human rights, labels, language, neurodiversity, personalized services, Spring 2024 Issue, unity
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We are writing to explain why we do not need more labels to describe autism. We, the authors, became acquainted with each other in 1996 through a common mentor, Stanley Klein, the editor of Exceptional Parent Magazine, when we each published our first books: Beyond the Wall: Personal Experiences...

Autism Advocacy: Inclusion, Empowerment, and Human Rights

• By: Annie Kent, MA Mental Health Systemic Advocate and Educator/Writer
• January 2nd, 2023
• actually autistic, advocacy, diversity, empowerment, exclusion, human rights, identity, inclusion, language, Winter 2023 Issue
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“Autism isn’t this strange alien thing, it’s just a different way of thinking and experiencing the world. Some of us will find ourselves more or less compatible with modern living than others, we will all have different needs…but autism is not terrifying or awful, nor is it marvellous and...

Steps to Empower Families to Access Early Intervention

• By: Bernadette Murphy Bentley, MPA Tufts Medical Center
• October 1st, 2012
• early intervention, empowerment, families, resources
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In my six years as Autism Resource Specialist in the Center for Children with Special Needs at Floating Hospital for Children in Tufts Medical Center in Boston, I have met with hundreds of families in the moments after their young child receives an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Although...