Kickass Kid of the Day: Seven-year-old Annie Clark has just been awarded top prize in a national penmanship contest. Annie also was born without hands.
What’s her secret? She wedges a pencil between her arms and she’s “learned to go slow,” she said. “I think about doing words and spelling.”
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Everyday Superhero of the Day: Jess Thom is one of the 10 percent of people with Tourette’s syndrome who also have coprolalia — the tendency to involuntarily blurt out curse words. Her most frequent tic words include “f**k” and “biscuit,” but her tics also cause her to utter brilliant, hilarious and obscene phrases, which she’s started collecting on her website, Tourettes Hero.
The site includes a searchable index of Thom’s best tics, including fan-submitted illustrations of some of the more colorful phrases.
Tourettes Hero is also Thom’s superhero alter ego — costume and all — which she adopted for speaking engagements and classroom visits to help educate people about an often-misunderstood condition shared by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide and “change the world one tic at a time.”
(Sorta not safe for work, f**king biscuits.)
A poem about IEPs
I do not like these IEPs.
I do not like them, Jeeze Louise!
We test, we check, We plan,
we meet, But nothing ever seems complete.
Would you, could you like the form?
I do not like the form I see,
Not page 1, not 2 not 3
another change,
A brand new box,
I think we all Have lost our rocks,
Could we all meet here or there?
We cannot all fit any where.
Not in a room, Not in a hall,
there seems to be no space at all.
Could you, could you meet again?
I cannot meet again next week.
No Lunch, no prop,
Please hear me speak.
No, not at dusk.
No, not at dawn.
At 4 P.M., I should be gone.
Could your hear while all speak out?
Would you write the words they spout?
I could not hear, I would not write,
This does not need to be a fight.
Sign here, date there,
Mark this, check that,
Beware the students ad-vo-cat(e)
You do not like them,
So you say Try again! Try again!
And you may If you will let me be,
I will try again, You will see Say!
I almost like these IEPs I think.
I’ll write 6,003.
And I will practice day and night
until they say
You got it right
Sh*t no adult with ADHD says
SO TRUE
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Awesome. I’m crying of laughter.
DON’T JUDGE ME! Already my son has been penalised by many! Since this filming he has calmed down a great deal! Many people believe that he is not Autistic, WHAT DO THEY KNOW? If he remained non-verbal and a quiet little child maybe the stereotypes of a typical little black boy!
National Autistic Society “Children with autism who are from ethnic minorities face a double discrimination in education, campaigners say” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6558327.stm
I AM NOT A BAD MOTHER, I want the best for my children! IT’S ONLY UNTIL YOU TAKE THE TIME TO DO THE RESEARCH YOURSELF, you will find how much work needs to be done for many families from across the world! God truly answered my prayers, I battled with the LEA and all Four Tribunal Appeals were in my favour (WASTED TAX PAYERS MONEY). He was diagnosed by a specialist paediatric and still I have had to prove by the negligence of many of looking at my parenting skills.
Since his admission into a Specialist School of my choice (GREAT SCHOOL) he has surely improved drastically (IS THIS WHY PEOPLE THINK HE IS NOT AUTISTIC), we have relocated (still some problems, but thanking God still) and now get additional support from the right people who care! MY ADVICE DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU THAT YOUR SON WILL GROW OUT OF IT AND THAT IT IS YOUR FAULT!
Seek legal advice OR even better get specialist advice, if you still finding it hard to get the right support inbox me and I will direct you to someone who will be able to assist! I clearly know now, who really cares. Denial is a dangerous thing, it deprives and delays the child from getting the right support! Who is benefit when the child/teenager or adult is having to cope! Because of someone elses ignorance!
Nathaniel still stays up late at night, but at least he has his own room now and his behaviour is decreasing. What has made it easier is keeping to routines, structure and planing when things have to change. He is a more happy child and my daughters are doing better at school!
I am so happy to hear that Nathaniel is getting an education from a school suited for his needs. Schools like that are often rare here in the States. Your family seems so sweet, its wonderful you are all working through this together.
Everyone should take some time to watch this video. Nathaniel is not the only child out there who is slipping through the cracks. We need to recognize what autism is so we can give those who suffer from it a fighting chance, and also learn to work with the strengths it comes with not just the struggles.
(Source: a2ndvoice)
Oh no! I can't open this file! NEVER FEAR!!
Accidentally saved as a .docx you can’t open it at school? Did you get a .PDF of your reading assignment but need it in .RTF for your screen reader? This is just what you need! RoboBraille.org to the rescue!
I was referred to this online converter by my boss. It is an exceptionally useful converter which converts just about everything! It does pictures, it does documents, and it even makes e-books for Kindle (.mobi) and all other ebook readers (.epub). Not convinced yet? Its free and online. Access it any time, anywhere.
Its pretty easy to use too. Just click language and upload a file. It will ask what you want it to become, and then it will ask your e-mail so it can send the completed file to you! It usually takes a minute, but it is worth the wait!
Soldier on, friends!
Touch: Why Are We Obsessed With Autistic Kids Having Superpowers?
Kiefer Sutherland’s new show Touch premieres this week, and the plot hinges on the “superpowers” of a non-neurotypical child Jake. Jake can predict the future, which is of course not only impossible, but dangerously stereotypical of autism spectrum disorders. Actually, “stereotypical” is the wrong word. “Bullshit” or “insulting” are closer to the word I am looking for.
I am sure there will be plenty of the terrorist ass-kicking and 1,000-yard stare neo-MacGuyverism that Kiefer Sutherland has come to be known for, but is this really how we should portray autism on television, or anywhere? From io9:
The danger here is that the autistic character could be akin to the “magical negro” or the “noble savage” in popular culture, says Steve Silberman, a frequent contributor to Wired who’s writing a book about autism to be published in 2013. Silberman explains that these are
“… characters that were significantly disabled in a social sense, but who had a kind of innocence and purity that enabled them to play their central role in the narrative: that of redeeming the hero, who wasn’t disabled and was only temporarily an outcast. Those characters usually faded offscreen when the hero attained his rightfully high status in society; they were only valuable for what they could render unto the mainstream characters — very much like the gay “best friend” in a million TV shows who coaches the female lead on her romantic problems but never has a sex life of his own (“gross!”), or the fat girl who’s “like a sister” to the geeky-but-hot male lead.”
(via io9)
DaleyDeil's Comical World: I'm ADHD-I possitive + Dyslexic = me ='(
So i took the ADHD test today and the result… POSITIVE, (ADHD-I). oh god… i can’t believe it. After answering the questions, it all made sense now.
“Inattentive-type (ADHD-I)”
- Procrastination
- Indecision, difficulty recalling and organizing details required for a task
- Poor time management,…
Its tough getting diagnosed with both. I have the same diagnosis as you. There are a lot of options you can pursue. Let me know if you have any questions.
