Call on Researchers, Not Filmmakers, to Test Facilitated Communication: A Commentary on Spellers
Amy Lutz argues that we must turn to objective science, not slickly edited documentary films, to test the agency of people with autism using facilitated communication.
Media Misstep: Non-Profound Autism Definitely Does Not Mean "Mild"
While we embrace the progress of the profound autism label, we must be vigilant to ensure the term does not obscure the broader population clearly and often severely disabled by autism but who do not meet criteria for "profound" — or be used to trivialize the skyrocketing rates of autism.
Jill Escher at TEDx: Five Things You Must Know About Autism — Reality Check Edition
In an April 2023 TEDx talk, NCSA president Jill Escher counters the feel-goodism of Autism Awareness Month by highlighting five difficult truths about the rising national autism crisis.
Feda Almaliti: Locked Out of My Refrigerator and Other True Tales from the Life of a Weary Autism Mom
“Autism can be shockingly expensive. Not just the therapies and schools and housing, but the everyday Tasmanian Devil-like damage for which there is no insurance or help.”
April: Autism Awareness or Autism Propaganda?
“Awareness of and advocacy for the realities of autism. We don’t need propaganda. We can educate without being preachy. We can advocate, telling our truths, while being kind to one another.”
Latest California DDS Data Show Autism Cases Jump to 160,000
Autism caseload in California’s Department of Developmental Services continue to soar, as of the end-of-2022 count.