Uta Frith no longer thinks that autism is a spectrum. She explained this view in an interview with the TES (the magazine formerly known as the Times Educational Supplement). Let’s examine her argument. Increasing diagnosis and demand The prompt for Frith to abandon her long-held view that autism is a spectrum is that an increasing…
Red in the Spectrum’s Janine Booth spoke about Including Autistic People at Work: removing barriers and challenging discrimination at 1-2-1 Enfield’s Autism Inclusion conference in June. You can watch a video of the talk here. This is what Janine said:
In this video, Red in the Spectrum’s Janine Booth talks about Including Autistic People at Work: removing barriers and challenging discrimination. Janine was speaking at One-to-One Enfield‘s Autism Inclusion conference in July. The Autism Inclusion conference included:
In this interview – filmed for use in teaching sports and leisure centre workers about neurodiversity – Joe Booth, a young autistic adult, talk with Red in the Spectrum’s Janine Booth (his mum) about his experiences in sports and leisure. You can watch this as a video and/or read the transcript of the interview below. An…
This interview – filmed for use in teaching education workers about neurodiversity – sees Joe Booth, a young autistic adult, talk with Red in the Spectrum’s Janine Booth (his mum) about his experiences as an autistic student – in school and in college – barriers that he experienced, and things that he found useful to…
There are many good articles explaining why most autistic people prefer to be referred to as ‘autistic people’ rather than ‘people with autism’. The purpose of this article is not to add one more explanation to the collection, but to propose that this argument is more accurately (and clearly) described as ‘adjective vs accessory’ rather than ‘identity-first language (IFL) vs person-first language (PFL)’ as it is usually described.
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