Autism and neurodiversity: Addressing concerns and offering implications for the school-based speech-language pathologist

LS DeThorne, K Searsmith - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest …, 2021 - ASHA
… Consequently, we offer examples for implementing the neurodiversityneurodiversity
paradigm in a way that we hope will directly translate into improved service provision for autistic

A strengths-based approach to autism: Neurodiversity and partnering with the autism community

AL Donaldson, K Krejcha, A McMillin - … of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2017 - ASHA
… to neurodiversity, a strengths-based approach to partnering with autism community, identity-first
language… with which speech-language pathologists (SLPs) serve the autism community, …

A primer on neurodiversity-affirming speech and language services for autistic individuals

C Gaddy, H Crow - Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2023 - ASHA
… is to educate speech-language pathologists (SLPs) on the need for and positive outcomes
associated with neurodiversity-affirming care. This primer will outline what neurodiversity is, …

“I Have a Different Perspective as I Am Working Through This”: SpeechLanguage Pathologist Reflections on Autism

LS DeThorne, K Pierce, M Rang… - Topics in Language …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
… our team's alignment with the neurodiversity and medical views of autism, all team members
… Given the importance of autistic voices in the Neurodiversity Movement, we decided to draw …

Qualitative analysis of the experiences and perspectives of autistic speech-language pathologists

M Oates, A Bean - American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023 - ASHA
… We believe that a critical step in increasing neurodiversity within the field is to gain greater
… is openly autistic and is currently pursuing a clinical degree in speech-language pathology. …

An interactive and neurodiversity-affirming approach to communication supports for autistic students through videogaming

S Santhanam - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools, 2023 - ASHA
Purpose: Videogaming offers an interactive, enjoyable, and socially valid context for
interaction between autistic and non-autistic students in schools. In this tutorial, I describe an …

Toward neurodiversity: How conversation analysis can contribute to a new approach to social communication assessment

B Yu, L Sterponi - Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023 - ASHA
… notions of autism and social communication in speech-language pathology. … to a
neurodiversity-affirming approach to the assessment of autistic sociality in the field of speech-language

What can stutterers learn from the neurodiversity movement?

CD Constantino - Seminars in Speech and Language, 2018 - thieme-connect.com
autistic people, neurodiversitylanguage because of the emphasis it puts on the humanity
of individuals with disorders. The development of person-first language (eg, person with autism

Balancing respect for individuals, human rights, neurodiversity, and positive behavioral support in intervention research for a spectrum of autistic people

S Camarata - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022 - ASHA
Language, and Hearing Research provide an opportunity to consider multiple perspectives …
rights of autistic people. How to characterize the spectrum, how to address neurodiversity as …

“I'm in a unique position to make a difference”: The experiences and practices of autistic speech and language therapists

M Gréaux, N Katsos, JL Gibson - 2023 - osf.io
… of something that one might go to a speech and language therapist for, for support, that
then … identity and confidence as autistic SLTs (1.1), empower them to use neurodiversity-affirming …