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Amplifying Autistic perspectives: Learning from and with Autistic adults to support their autonomy
DownloadFall 2023
Self-determination enhances a person’s quality of life and is a fundamental human right. Yet, Autistic individuals experience fewer opportunities for self-determination than their non-autistic peers, including peers with other developmental disabilities. This is often due to professionals...
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Bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder: Bilingual development and advantages on executive and adaptive functioning
DownloadFall 2022
Many children, including those on the autism spectrum, need to communicate in two or more languages to participate fully in their lives and communities. Despite bilingualism being a worldwide phenomenon, bilingual development in autistic children is a relatively new area of study, with a limited...
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Fall 2020
A widely held, stereotyped belief is that students with autism tend to be mathematically gifted. This stereotype has some support in the annals of autism research, but more recently, researchers have revealed that the rates of both math giftedness and math weakness and/or disability among...
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Fall 2021
Pedagogical textbooks are oftentimes the first introduction undergraduate students and future Adapted Physical Activity (APA) and Adapted Physical Education (APE) professionals have to the discipline. These texts can set the epistemological and axiological framing through which all subsequent...
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Fall 2023
Hoveling, Léonie Antoinette Maria
Background: Autistic individuals are often stereotyped as gifted mathematicians and, as a result, autistic traits and behaviours are generally believed to lead to exceptional mathematical ability. Much of society’s collective understanding of autism is based on media representations, which often...
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Spring 2021
Neurodiversity is a recent term used to signify a diversity of thought for individuals with intellectual diagnoses such as autism and ADHD. This is a significant shift from historical conceptualizations of these conditions, which were ground in medical or charity models, and supported a...