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Katharine Beals and team work hard, to the level of fanaticism, to discredit techniques used to help nonspeaking people with poor motor control or apraxia be able to communicate. Facilitated communication has been discredited by a small team who seem to make it their life's goal
They are not scientists, though. They are bullies. These are the same people trying to commandeer ground to discredit that sensory processing disorder affects behaviors. I have evidence of far more than a decade of academic and social bullying of autistic people at their hands
They are part of the crew responsible for editing the Wikipedia articles and having them removed for people like Tito Mukhopadhyay, who literally can use a pencil and write his words, yet they still try to invalidate his words. There's loads of evidence!
This is what is known as "aspie supremacy." Here are facts: nonspeakers can be intellectually gifted. Intellectually gifted people can have pronounced learning disorders, ambulatory/movement disorders, auditory or visual processing problems, and still need special education.
People with intellectual disability can often do fine in a regular ed. classroom. IQ tests are biased and not accurate for autistic people. Autism and Asperger's are not two different things. The only difference between Asperger's and autism is in your personal prejudices.
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THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASPERGER'S AND AUTISM IS IN YOUR PERSONAL PREJUDICES.
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASPERGER'S AND AUTISM IS IN YOUR PERSONAL PREJUDICES.
