How To Bond With Your Autistic Child Through Your Special Interests
Terra Vance
August 3, 2022
Parents often feel like they’ve got to lose themselves to bond with their Autistic child. The opposite is true, though.
Resources for Educators
Free PDF download: Thin Slice Judgements and The Different World Autistics Inhabit
Terra Vance
May 5, 2022
Research has shown that instantly, non-autistic people negatively judge autistic people on first sight. This is a free printable resource for you on thin slice judgements.
April Is…
AdamAuron Lodestone
April 1, 2022
April is for affirmation, inclusion, empowerment, and accomodation! Center Autistic voices. Unlearn ableist concepts. Actively dismantle ableist and neurobigoted structures and systems. Seek out advocates,
Show Us Your Brain – FREE Resource for understanding your “brain story”
Terra Vance
August 17, 2021
NeuroClastic introduces a free visual tool you can use to create your own “Brain story.” Map out your sensory story to learn more about yourself and communicate your differences to others!
Better Than Social Stories – Free Download: A Room for Us All
Terra Vance
December 9, 2020
Social Stories are often used misused to make disabled kids feel like they are at fault for their own social exclusion. NeuroInclusive Stories encourage all kids to embrace diversity.
Why Autistic Kids and Adults Develop Intense Fears and Phobias
Terra Vance
December 5, 2020
To understand autistic fears and phobias, non-autistic people need more context. This article can help non-autistic people support autistic children and adults through what may seem to be unreasonable fears.
Social Stories for Autism and the Harm They Can Cause
Terra Vance
December 4, 2020
Social stories should be for the whole class, because that is what inclusion means. They should focus on the values that drive cooperation and embrace difference. Social stories should encourage inclusion, and that means trying to find ways to include everyone and addressing those most likely to create a culture of exclusion.
Autism, Fire Alarms, & School Fire Drills
Alex Sprague
November 25, 2020
For many autistic students, school fire drills can be deeply upsetting. For Alex, the fear of the next one was so traumatizing that it prevented access to a free and appropriate education.
Darkest Before Dawn: Autism, Ableism, and the Rise of the Neurodiversity Movement
Adam Mardero
July 26, 2019
Why is the concept of Neurodiversity so important to the autistic and broader disability community? An exploration of the history of the neurodiversity movement
