It’s Not OUGHTism: Rethinking the Urgency over Early Interventions with Terra Vance, NeuroClastic
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- Phrases like “gold standard” and “evidence based” lend assurance to parents that enrolling their toddler or young child in 5-40 hours of interventions per week is the right thing to do. Former public school teacher, trauma counselor, and CEO of the autistic-led nonprofit NeuroClastic, Terra Vance, walks parents and professionals through a different way of conceptualizing the evidence base and supporting the emotional, social, and developmental health of autistic children. As an autistic parent to a young autistic child, Vance was recently faced with the same pressure. Learn how Vance dealt with the news that her child would never speak, never graduate from school, and would always have “severe” behaviors if she didn’t enroll her child in four different therapies.
Terra Vance is a Melungeon of Romani and Native American heritage who grew up in a coal mining camp. She is autistic, dyslexic, ADHD, and apraxic. Vance was a secondary English teacher for 14 years and a DBT counselor for two before founding NeuroClastic, an autistic-led nonprofit. Now, Vance spends her days working various roles as NeuroClastic’s CEO. Her passions include decolonizing systemic structures, literature (especially Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man), building healthier communities, unpacking ancestry and reconnecting to her native cultures, all things plants, and parenting her wonderfully autistic child.
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We enrolled our son in a DIR Floor time program. It is going great! And parents can be a part of the therapy so he isn't gone for most of the day!
Great video
I've done so much neuroscience myself, especially reading about the autistic brain. The neurological differences I've read about provide great explanations.
Like they've seen correlation between the relationship between non autistics communicating with non autistic people, and autistic people engaged with their interest.
Is Anyone Really Normal?
This argument for a neuro-diversity tolerant society raises the important question of who is normal anyway. If people with disabilities are regarded as "abnormal", then it becomes necessary to define what the conditions of normal are that serve as the ruling standards of appearance, behaviour and achievement.....
The average of 12, 6, 8, 9, and 15 is 10, yet 10 isn't even represented in any of the original numbers - it is a new number, something else besides the actual reality of what is given. In the same way, there really isn't an "average" person anywhere; "average" merely represents a statistical artifact. For something that really doesn't have any tangible existence, the idea of "normal" certainly has been invested with a great deal of power in our society.
(PhD. Thomas Armstrong)
Diversity in neurological development = Diversity in human development.
Not delay in development.
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Please enable captioning on these live recordings! I love them but they can be very difficult to follow.
I’m so sorry Mel! We did have live captioning enabled but once it airs they don’t show up for 2-24 hours when TH-cam processes the video. I will investigate if there’s anything else we can do. Thanks so much for the feedback!
I missed this one live. When is the next live presentation?
Kate, you look so cute like snow white!