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From Karla McLarens Research-Based Approaches to Autistic Ways of Learning A small but growing number of multidisciplinary researchers are challenging the autistic stereotype and finding, in many cases, that our knowledge of autism has been built upon unsupportable ideas about normality, intelligence, sociality, eye contact, empathy, language development, child development, and communication. Much of this new, autism-positive research suggests that approaching autism in terms of valid human behaviors instead of medicalized deficits can significantly improve the lives of autistic people and their families. This culturally sensitive focus on autistic strengths and preferences is more supportive to the child, and also more supportive to parents, families, teachers, and therapists, considering how much time and energy it takes to try to extinguish natural and necessary autistic ways of being. karlamclaren/research-based-approaches-to-autistic-ways-of-learning/ Christi Owens Nate Place
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 05:09:38 +0000

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