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• The ND Word: Autism as Difference Not Disease

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:44 pm

  Tags: Disability Rights, Stereotypes, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Disability Studies, Diversity, Education, Family, Health, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  her difference, diversity, disability? I have now seen the autistic children of many friends grow up, as Charlie has grown up, and whatever our views about the causes of autism, about the treatments (biomedical, educational, otherwise) for our children, whatever our position on vaccines, at the end of the day, we love our children because they

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• Redefining Society's Response to Disability

  Published: June 19, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Disability Studies, Disability Rights

  autism is by turning to the disability community-at-large and disability studies departments at universities world-wide. Let's take a look at my home-town university Ryerson's website to read the following paragraph on the School of Disability Studies project:"More traditional approaches to disability focus on ways to rehabilitiate or `fix'

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