2016

Different, but not less!
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I arrived in Holland in 1985. I was very young and starting life with my Dutch prince charming. Together we build a loving family. We had two sweet and smart daughters and love filled our home. But it wasn’t until the birth of our third child, that I learned the bigger (and better) life lessons. My son, Edinho, was autistic. He wasn’t “normal”, or neurotypical, as we say in the autistic communities. Being autistic means that he sees and experiences the world in a different Continue→

STEPHEN SHORE (USA)
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Helping Your Child to Help Him/Her Self: Beginning Self-Advocacy by Stephen Shore Self-advocacy is realizing what one needs in order to maximize functioning in life and knowing how to arrange the environment or obtain accommodations to do so. Or put another way, it is being literate about one’s own needs. The road to self-advocacy includes discussions of disclosure, special interests, learning styles, learning accommodations, and even relationships. One place to teach these skills is through involving students in the development of their own Individualized Education Plan Continue→

SOBRE A VIOLÊNCIA NAS SALAS DE AULA, PROFESSORES E JEDIS
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Por Fatima de Kwant Holanda, 04-02-2016 O texto de hoje não tem a ver com autismo, mas é pertinente. Tem a ver com crianças. Crianças que frequentam escolas regulares. Crianças violentas, agressivas, mal-educadas. Crianças que necessitam atenção, antes de tudo. Há algumas semanas, eu explicava ao meu filho adolescente como funcionavam as escolas na minha época: fazer fila, usar uniforme engomado, cantar o hino todas as segundas-feiras e, principalmente, ficar em silêncio quando o professor lecionava. Totalmente contrário ao que acontece hoje em dia nas Continue→

AUTISM, THE BRAIN GUT CONNECTION AND THE LEAKY GUT SYNDROME

  You ‘ve probably never heard of it, but many families with autism did.   Currently, one of the most talked about subjects within the field of autism (and hyperactivity), concerns the connection between the gut and the brain. The fact that some families get a significant improvement of autistic symptoms – if not their eradication – after biomedical interventions are gradually attracting the attention of many people. These responses are based on the principle that there is indeed a barrier between the human gut Continue→