The Representation Wars: Media Portrayals, Language Debates, and Advocacy in the Autism Community is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of community routines and natural environments. In Media Portrayals, Language Debates, and Advocacy in the Autism, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer case conceptualization, better instructional targets, and stronger generalization, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Profound Autism Summit
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Join Free →Questions of representation are central to profound autism advocacy. This talk will engage with multiple meanings of this very fraught term — including how autism is represented in the media, who gets to speak for profoundly autistic individuals who can't speak for themselves, and even what words are we allowed to use when we talk about this population?
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Amy S.F. Lutz, PhD is a historian of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the Vice-President of the National Council on Severe Autism (NCSA), and the parent of a profoundly autistic son, Jonah, 26. She has written about profound autism for many platforms, including The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and Slate. Her most recent book is Chasing the Intact Mind: How the Severely Autistic and Intellectually Disabled Were Excluded from the Debates that Affect Them Most (2023); she is also the author of We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020) and Each Day I Like It Better: Autism, ECT, and the Treatment of Our Most Impaired Children (2014). She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and whichever of her five kids happen to be home at the time.
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