Work-from-home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic was the greatest accommodation for differences ever offered. For those of us with physical differences and Neurodiverse minds, the WFH years allowed us to recharge and work whenever we were personally most productive. We did 40 hours or more of work weekly, but not…
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Podcast 0115; Season 7, Episode 8; 10 July 2024 NOTE: Originally Recorded 18 August 2023 Jenny Sandler and HomeschoolUK.com Jenny Sandler is an experienced educator working with autistic children and adolescents both in and out of school. She holds an M.A. in literacy and an M.Ed. in autism in children.…
Podcast 0110; Season 7, Episode 3; 25 October 2023 David Villec is the neurodiverse father of Tiger, a 10-year-old autistic savant. Dave discusses his personal challenges and those of Tiger. The Autistic Tiger is 10-year-old Tiger Villec and his namesake character, also known as “TAT.” Tiger is a world-renowned artist…
Podcast 0109; Season 7, Episode 2; 29 August 2023 How can parents support their disabled children into adulthood? Will our children find meaningful places in society? Sadly, workplaces don’t always accommodate differences. Mark Lyons and his wife Sally are former teachers. With their son Samuel, they operate SammySocksEtc, an online…
The public school experiment for 2022-23 ran its course by January 26, 2023, when we gave the fifth grader a mental health day at home. She won’t be returning this school year. During the last three weeks, we became aware of problems we didn’t know existed at the school, learned…
Leigh has totally rocked her return to campus and even added her first major activity outside school: playing in a rock band. Her first show will even be in a local bar known for live music. Living in Austin, the home of “Austin City Limits” and SXSW, performing in a…
Appearing as a guest on other podcasts and blogs offers me the opportunity to advocate for natural accommodations in our shared spaces. Schools, workplaces, and public common areas should invite every interested individual into the community. Dr. Shelli Ann Garland hosts A Dash of SaLT: Fresh discussions on Society and…
Appearing as a guest on other podcasts and blogs offers me the opportunity to advocate for natural accommodations in our shared spaces. Schools, workplaces, and public common areas should invite every interested individual into the community. Dr. Shelli Ann Garland hosts A Dash of SaLT: Fresh discussions on Society and…
Classroom spaces, physical and virtual, present numerous barriers to academic achievement for disabled students. Compound these spaces with ableist teaching practices and it is little wonder schooling traumatizes many students. “Today’s classrooms better meet the social and academic needs of students,” I’ve heard experts proclaim. Really? Which students? Surely not…
I used to consider software development one of the few careers, outside librarians and medical examiners, surely insulated from the extroverts too often in charge of human society. Then, along came various project management schemes that forced programmers to act like extroverts. This post discusses Agile software development project management…