The Boy In The Unruly Body is a children’s picture book by Gregory Tino about apraxia. Here’s a NeuroInclusive story about apraxia and the brain-body disconnect.
On Monday, July 25th at 1 pm Eastern Time, the NeuroClastic team goes live with a former JRC Center worker for an interview. Join us!
Tejas Rao Sankar challenges schools and society to invest in the autonomy of autistic people and not to deny nonspeakers the right to participate in the IEP process.
Rithik Sinhasan is a nonspeaking autistic teen who wants to be a travel writer, but before gaining access to rapid prompting method, or RPM, through Soma Mukhopadhyay, his dreams were grounded.
A California school told a mom that in order for her Black autistic son to get the services and accommodations he needs, she would have to say that he’s not Black.
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.
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.
I am a passionate advocate of EQ as an essential part of early years formal education. I know for sure that some of my issues would never have taken root so deeply had an education system been in place which valued the growth of the individual.
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.
Teens Bekki Semenova and Ellie Rebarbar shine a light on selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that is often misunderstood and needs more awareness and acceptance.
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