Archive for 'Cognitive Interpreting'
Editing.
Mom26children has written a post about the assumptions people make about her family based on their television appearance. I can identify a lot with what she writes. When CNN came to my apartment, they took two days of footage for that one ten-minute segment. As Mom26children says:
Some of you guys question the [...]
Posted: under Autism, Blogs, Cognitive Interpreting, Communication, Journalism, Language, Links, Meltdown, Non-Speech, Outside Perceptions, Overload, TV, Typing . Comments: 34
Condensed old-post response to twisting of experiences
Typing hurts so this is a condensed version of a long post. Apologies in advance for lack of nuance. The long version was written before my last several posts (written last week) and resemblance to later happenings (which in some places is strong) is coincidental.
This is about me but surely applies to many others so [...]
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How to suppress disabled people’s writing.
I have a book. I have to confess, I’ve never actually read the book. I’ve tried, but the language in it is difficult for me to understand. This does not prevent me from loving the cover of the book. The book is pictured here, but for those who can’t read it from the picture, [...]
Posted: under Auties, Books, Cognitive Interpreting, Communication, Disability, Discrimination, Ethics, Facilitated Communication, Feminism, Functioning labels, IQ, Mental Age, Non-Speech, Outside Perceptions, Prejudice, Speech, Stereotypes, Typing . Comments: 52
The meaning of power.
When I was a child, my family kept rabbits. We kept them in hutches in the backyard. They rarely got out to play or interact with anybody. They were confined to small hutches for their entire lives.
When I got older, and began to experience confinement myself, I began to see that this was wrong, but [...]
Posted: under Analogies, Animal Rights, Auties, Cognitive Interpreting, Do-gooders, Ethics, Facilitated Communication, Friends, Guilt, Institutions, Mental Age, Neglect, Parents, Power, Rabbits, Regression, Solitary Confinement, Staff . Comments: 13
You Come Into My Home…
It seems like it’s some variation on the same thing every time.
You come into my home.
You have some set of values that you’ve learned through a seminar or wherever else professionals go to learn these things. They go by a lot of names, most of them buzzwords: Self-determination, client empowerment, etc. You [...]
Posted: under Abuse, Cognitive Interpreting, Communication, Disability, Discrimination, Do-gooders, Ethics, Hierarchies, Language, Meetings, Non-Speech, Outside Perceptions, Power, Prejudice, Self-Advocacy, Services, Staff . Comments: 3