Understanding Chronic Illness through Metaphor
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**Disclaimer: Medicaid requires therapies to code as ABA in order to be approved, but that doesn't mean the therapists are using ABA techniques.
The 2020 Netflix documentary "Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution" is a great film about the beginning of the disability rights movement as it began all those years ago at a summer camp called Camp Jened.
Whether you've never met someone with a disability, or this is your everyday life, this film will open your eyes and change your perspective. Plus, it will introduce you to our heroes (Judy Heumann
Now that you've met Judy, it's time to read her memoir.
Judy paved the way for disability rights activists and it is in her spirit that I created Access and Allies.
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price paves the way in removing the stigma around autism and other neurodiversities. The book focuses heavily on autism, as the title implies, but also explores ADHD and touches briefly on other neurodiversities.
I highly recommend this to high masking autistic individuals, as well as those looking to gain insight to the autisti
"True Biz" is a fictional tale that gives hearing folk a peek of what it's like inside the lives of the Deaf.
Rebeckah Trausig gives an eye-opening perspective of what it's like to be young and disabled and the challenges disabled folks face, even today.
This fictional story is based on very real horrors. The treatment of individuals with disabilities, especially cognitive disabilities, has been horrific. It's been less than 40 years since this nightmare closed down.
This book left me crying many times, but I think it's important to know what sorts of inhumane things were happening so that we ensure that never, EVER happens again.
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