Autistic community and the neurodiversity movement : stories from the frontline / edited by Steven K. Kapp.

By: Kapp, Steven K.

Publisher: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Description: xix, 330 pages : 22 cm : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789811384363.Subject(s): AUTISM

| HISTORY

| NEURODIVERSITY

| HUMAN RIGHTS

| SELF ADVOCACY

Contents:

Introduction / Steven K Kapp. PART I: GAINING COMMUNITY. - 2. Historicizing Jim Sinclair's "Don't mourn for us" : a cultural and intellectual history of neurodiversity's first manifesto / Sarah Pripas-Kapit. - 3. From exclusion to acceptance: independent living on the autistic spectrum / Martijn Dekker. - 4. Autistic people against neuroleptic abuse / Dinah Murray. - 5. Autistocs.org and finding our voices as an activist movement / Laura A Tisonik. - 6. Losing / Mel Baggs. - PART II: GETTING HEARD. - 7. Neurodiversity.com : a decade of advocacy / Kathleen Seidel. - 8. Autscape ? Karen Lench Buckle. - 9. The autistic genocide clock / Meg Evans. - 10. Shifting the system: AASPIRE and the loom of science and activism / Dora M Raymaker. - 11. Out of searching comes new vibrance / Sharon da Vanport. - 12. Two winding parent pahs to neurodiversity advocacy / Carol Greenburg and Shannon Des Roches Rosa. - 13. Lobbying autism's diagnostic revision in the DSM-5 / Steven K Kapp and Ari Ne'eman. - 14. Torture in the name of treatment: the mission to stop the shocks in the age of deinstitutionalization / Shain M Neumeier and Lydia X Z Brown. - 15. Autonomy, the Critical Journal of Interdisciplinary Autiam Studies / Larry Arnold. - 16. My time with autism speaks / John Elder Robison. - 17. Covering the politics of neurodiversity: and myself / Erica M Garcia. - 18 "A dream deferred" no longer: backstory of the first autism and race anthology / Morenike Giwa Onaiwu. - PART III: ENTERING THE ESTABLISHMENT? - 19. Changing paradigms: the emergence of the autism/neurodiversity manifesto / Monique Craine. - 20. From protest to taskforce / Dinah Murray. - 21. Critiques of the neurodiversity movementt / Ginny Russell. - 22. Conclusion / Steven K Kapp. - Index

Summary: "This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement, progress in their influence on the broader autism community and field, and their possible threshold of the advocacy establishment." - PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This open access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words since it organized into a unique community in 1992. Sandwiched by editorial chapters that include critical analysis, the book contains 19 chapters by 21 authors about the forming of the autistic community and neurodiversity movement, progress in their influence on the broader autism community and field, and their possible threshold of the advocacy establishment." - PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE

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