Autism Friendly by autistic author Donna Williams

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What is autism friendly and how do we become it? What is autism friendly if there is no one thing called autism? What is autism friendly when new stereotypes are as confusing as the old ones? In this slideshow autistic author, Donna Williams draws on her own experiences, years of consulting work and her nine published works to explore the concept of autism friendly in the context of DSM. She uses a combination of her artworks, childhood photos and music together with slides from one of her many international lectures.

further info:
http://www.myspace.com/nobodynowherethefilm
http://www.donnawilliams.net
http://www.aspinauts.com

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[shplixie]

any way we can slow this slide show a bit....i would love to show this in class....but it goes too quickly for thorough reading...and the info. is really valuable

[1210donna]

@shplixie no problem. you could use a pause button to stop it now and then.

[1210donna]

Hi Zenange, nice to meet you.

[ABAisSCIENCE]

Text book autism exists in a population of individuals. I know them.

The fact is people love them. Do you know my nephews? If my nephew learns to say "duck" at a young age, but by 3 yrs old does not talk at all; then would U say that an intervention that allows him 2 B indistinguishable & in honors 3rd grade is bad?

How about my nephew who took 100,000 trials 2 learn his 1st word. Do I love him? He speaks well, but is not indistinguishable. Do I love him less?

[1210donna]

not at all. If by age 3 a child has lost speech then I'd look beyond behaviour to things like social anxiety, depression and selective mutism. I saw a child who lost all speech by age 5 WITH ABA and who got it back after antidepressants and a shift to an indirectly confrontational approach... its about diversity. different things work for different people.

[1210donna]

the child I mention got her speech back within months after these interventions and the interventions were virtually cost free.

but if 100,000 trials helped your son learn his 1st word, so be it. And all the best to him in his journey.

[1210donna]

learned helplessness is a tragedy, so is blind compliance when the emotional self has not developed to join to actions. Therapies must consider the whole human being, not as a broken machine, but as a complex human requiring an individualised program and perspective.... also when discussing humans, please avoid text book style, it is as offensive as patronising tones... thanks.

[1210donna]

sorry but from my perspective what you're saying is textbook but not necessarily reality. I had vocal tics since age 2 but babbled by age 4, had stored speech strings and songs by age 5 and began to acquire functional interpretive language by age 9-11... I've worked with 100s of people on the spectrum, their language journies are ALL different. Rarely, rarely text book.

[ABAisSCIENCE]

We R all conditioned, but people R far more then the fruit of conditioning.

The individual who is highly affected w/ autism is conditioned 2 make sounds, but then straight-away is conditioned 2 find language useless.

Such a conditioning path is bound 2 have social interaction less reinforcing due 2 the limited availability of reinforcers 2 B given in social situations.

No doubt behaviorism needs 2 B tried different ways 2 optimize the conditioning of overcoming learned helplessness.

[1210donna]

:-)