UNH Institute on Disability is accepting submissions to be considered for the 2014 IOD Calendar
Reminder: The UNH Institute on Disability is accepting submissions to be considered for the 2014 IOD Calendar through Friday, July 26, 2013
Calendar Submission Deadline:
Friday, July 26, 2013
Notification of Selected Artists:
Friday, August 23, 2012
Calendars Available:
November 2013
Here are some simple guidelines to follow for submissions:
All artwork must be two-dimensional (i.e. drawings, paintings). Unfortunately, we are unable to accept photography and sculpture
Artwork for submission may be created for the purpose of this calendar or may be selected from an existing portfolio of work.
Artists are encouraged to subm...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - July 19, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Children with disabilities—invisible no more
UNICEF’s The State of the World’s Children 2013, released on May 30, opens with the challenge that global estimates of the number of children with disabilities are out of date. Frequently drawing on a 2004 estimate, it is around 93 million children. How, then, are we able to best meet the needs of these children without knowing the magnitude of the need? In response, the report emphasises that characterisation of children with disabilities as a problem is the problem itself. In much of the world, these children are simply invisible—hidden in institutions or, worse yet, neglected or abandoned. Infanticide pers...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - June 5, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Beyond Words
Prior to the incorporation of The Autism Acceptance Project, Estée Klar-Wolfond, a curator of art and a mother to an autistic son, organized an exhibition of the work by autistic artist, Jonathan Lerman. Jonathan gained notoriety as an artist and also for his history as a non-verbal autistic individual who gained speech later in life. The exhibition was titled Beyond Words: The Drawings of Jonathan Lerman and you can also find more information here:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/Jonathan_Lerman.html?id=jG7qAAAAMAAJ
http://www.logtv.com/films/autism/
In 2006, TAAProject was officially founded and with the assistance ...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - May 26, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
Federal Registered Disability Savings Plan (RSDP)
TORONTO, May 7, 2013 – The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) is beginning a new project at the request of the Ontario government to address how adults with developmental or mental disabilities might be better enabled to participate in the federal Registered Disability Savings Plan (RSDP) created by the federal government without an expensive competency assessment.
The RDSP is a savings vehicle to provide future support for persons with disabilities. Parents or guardians may open an RDSP for a child. However, adults with intellectual disabilities and others whose competence may be an issue may face challenges in opening or ...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - May 11, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: News Source Type: blogs
How Does The May 2 2013 Ontario Budget Look When Viewed Through A Disability Accessibility Lens?
AODA: Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
Here is our analysis of the May 2, 2013 Ontario Budget, viewed from the disability accessibility perspective. When reading the Budget Speech of Finance Minister Charles Sousa, we ask how and to what extent the Ontario Government is using its budget strategies to get Ontario on schedule for becoming fully accessible by 2025, the mandatory deadline that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act sets.
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Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - May 7, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Ontario Budget 2013: Long-Awaited Improvements to Social Assistance
After more than 15 years, some much-needed changes to Ontario Works in the Liberals’ budget draft. Every policy proposal comes with unmentioned fingerprints—buried reports or past choices, or in some cases in Ontario, the legacy of Mike Harris. When you take a closer look at many particular policies, you find they are correctives to budgets of yesteryear.
Read all the details by clicking the link below.
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Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - May 7, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: TAAP Admin Tags: News Source Type: blogs
What is Autism Acceptance Month?
Autism Acceptance Month is about challenging ignorance, prejudice, fear, and hysteria about autism and autistic people. Autism Acceptance Month spreads the word that autism is both a neurological disability and a natural part of human diversity, and centers the voices of autistic people in the conversation about us.
Autism Acceptance Month promotes acceptance of autistic people as family members, sons, daughters, spouses, friends, classmates, co-workers, community members, and fellow-citizens making valuable contributions to our world and communities.
Autism Acceptance Month is about treating autistic people with respect, ...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - April 12, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Mik Tags: News Source Type: blogs
What if It Were Just About Being Different? by Ray Stirman
My biggest question about autism is not so much why so many want to see autism as a disease and cure it. I am really more interested as to why people feel the way they do about people with autism.
Part of it I think has to do with people being uncomfortable around people who are different. One of the most important themes that seems to be globaly taught in every culture is that a person must find their “place” in society. They must play a role. It is of vital importance to people that a person learn to make others comfortable with the role that they play.
If a person doesnt play a role where they fit in and make others...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
Wandering Mind of An Autistic Girl by Aquarian Girl
Wandering Mind of an Autistic Girl, 2004
My mind wanders like an autistic, but I certainly don’t write like an autistic.
I write like a normal person although I am disabled.
But if people criticize me for my way of expression and the way I write, then they must be disabled!
God gave me, the Autistic Social Butterfly, the ability to communicate.
Thank you!
Autism is Not a Disease, 2006
For those who don’t understand about what autism really means, then I will gladly tell you.
Autism is not a disease; it’s a disorder that people are diagnosed with.
If you see someone not speaking or flapping their hands, that’s a sig...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
The Silent Storm by Brian Henson
The Silent Storm The hum, the grind, the music beat– They start to surge in force Until the bang hits in the ear, And one escapes the source…
The source is the environment Where sounds are uncontrolled; And yet when asked to ease the strain, The quest is seen as “cold”.
As there is no alternative Than to escape the bang, It’s like one’s trying to escape The bullet and the gang…
Once out, and far away, relief Is felt, but now alone, The individual, as one, must face A life next to a stone.
That stone is not a social byte; But humans crave to be Connected to another kin Through their humanity.
So as the person,...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
The Artistic Spectrum, Moms of kids with autism who blog
*Kristina Chew (autismvox.com), *Kim Stagliano (huffingtonpost.com/kim-stagliano and www.ageofautism.com) are moms of kids with autism who blog. Amy Gravino, Jason Ross, Cliff Schumacher and Leigh Silver all have various disabiliites and write.
Jacob Artson, a 15 year old nonverbal young adult with autism will be presenting his work via videoconference from Los Angeles. Jacob is a ninth grader with autism who attends Hamilton High School in Los Angeles. He is non-verbal.
Kristina Chew teaches Classics at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City and co-directs the Honors Program. Her son Charlie is 10 years old. She blogs...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
Special Moments At Camp by Darby Rose
“Wow”, I thought as I held the birthday card in my hand. God does really care about me! I have heard this growing up my whole life, and I have believed it, but today was different. It was just this morning that I doubted how much he cared for me and who my friends were here at camp!
Amazed at the whole situation that just happened I mentally walked through the events of the day. It was an emotional day, but that was nothing different! My friends at the camp dragged me out of the kitchen to do the ritual skipping around the dining hall. Everyone on their birthdays did this since the camp started 70 some odd years before...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
Someone Is Home; a poem by Donna Carol Koffman
Someone is Home
Yes ,
There is someone here
If you knock
I may not answer
I am not sure how
But know that
I am here
and you just need to let yourself in
and if you do
maybe next time
I will answer
and continue to answer
once I learn how
because I am definitely here
Yes (Source: The Autism Acceptance Project)
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
People Don’t Understand Autism by Rochelle Donlim
People don’t understand autism People who are not fortunate enough to live with a child who is autistic have no way of knowing the exquisite reality we are exposed to daily.
Those same people do not have the opportunity to experience the limitless intelligence and inquisitiveness of autistic children. History is replete with examples of how ignorance and intolerance have resulted in some of the worst episodes of inhumanity toward others – reservations for Native Americans, relocation camps for Japanese-Americans in World War II, institutionalization of people with brain disorders. Society has become so complacent a...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
Our World by Oliver Moore, aged 8
OUR WORLD Our world has trees
And little things called bees.
Our world has eyes
And people tell lies.
Our world has blocks
And doors have locks.
Our world has dogs
And springy frogs.
Our world has beaches
And nobody likes leeches.
Our world has toys
And some people are boys.
Our world has movies
And some people like smoothies.
Our world has games
And electricity mains.
Our world has bones
And some people have bank loans.
Our world has magic
And sometimes its tragic.
Our world has posters
And some people are boasters.
Our world has guns and yummy buns.
Our world has football
And Sky?..
And some people like to fly.
Our world...
Source: The Autism Acceptance Project - January 18, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: ADTP Tags: Autspoken Source Type: blogs
