I might have mentioned I’m doing a course with the Distance Learning Unit at Grimsby Institute at the moment. It’s a free one, ‘Level 2 Understanding Autism’, and I’ve been getting a bit frustrated by the way the first part presents autism. For instance the insistence on using, even when it makes things linguistically and grammatically awkward, the phrase ‘individuals with autism’, rather than ‘autistic people’. The organisations they recommend to find out further information are ones run by non-autistic people. And they have an extremely poor description of neurodiversity. Seriously, the learning material are really out of date.
By about thirty years.
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