This is a short post to wish all of you a happy holiday and New Year. Adam and I have had such a wonderful year – his wish now to write a book and all that progress with his typing. Finally out of the clutches of autism schools that haven’t...
Adam types, mostly independently, and also with various modes of assistance. Of late, he has developed his grammatically perfect sentences and I have to wonder about teaching the system of language. To most, this should be a heralded moment when Adam...
The end of the day of Adam healing from the croup and us both watching repeats of Wretches & Jabberers for my thesis. Adam can’t help laughing at the scenes of Naoki jumping up and down to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee –...
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Estée Klar
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05-28-2013
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Filed under: Activism, Adam, Critical Disability Studies, Writing, Autism and Intelligence, communication, Advocacy, Politics, Computing/iPad, Community, Living
I’m writing my thesis and am hankering to blog – so many things on my mind with the recent Ontario budget proposal, the ever-so teensy weensy allowance for an individual on ODSP to take home a couple hundred bucks a month and the way we may...
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Estée Klar
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05-09-2013
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Filed under: Activism, Autism and Learning, Critical Disability Studies, Autism and Intelligence, Acceptance, communication, autism, Advocacy, Politics, Organizations/Events, Ableism, Language, Community, Charity, The Autism Acceptance Project