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Understanding movement differences in a non medical way can be key to understanding and including people who otherwise may seem very challenging and difficult. All people with autism, but also those with labels such as Tourettes have movement differences creating difficulties in: Stopping Starting Switching Combining Continuing Executing complex movements All of us in the world moving around in human bodies experience difficulties in one or more of these areas. But some people have much greater issues - the volume has been turned up and the difficulty is much greater. Educators will find some excellent sections in this book by Paula Kluth on practical ways to tackle movement differences.   _______________________________________ NEW !! Rethinking Autism: Implications Of Sensory And Movement Differences Read this interesting article here _________________________________________   NEW !! Thiandi Grooff,student of the international university of Amsterdam, the AUC.  An interesting speech....download here Act Normal, The essential need to belong and be different at the same time;  a personal account on common views on "normality"and "disability" Meet Thiandi at work and launching her new book at 'Amsterdam University' on Dutch TV here
The Authorities Are Always Right.' A mother's battle to have her son's capacity to understand and communicate with support recognised. This film tells the story of Nihal Armstrong, a boy with Celebral Palsy whose misdiagnosed learning difficulties saw him spend some of his primary years within special needs education. Have a look at it here. _________________________________________   A Framework for Support Donnellan and Leary have a great credo for supporting people with movement difference: You're OK - Each person is OK just the way they are. Like all of us, people may want to change things in their lives, learn new skills, fit in, etc. Support includes recognition of a person's current attempts to participate. Let's Collaborate - Effective support includes the person in choosing goals for change and preferences for learning. Support to Organize - focuses on working out the right prompts - respectful accommodations that peole can use to get around difficulties. Read this paper on Rethinking Autism by Donnellan, Hill and Leary
Training Alternatively we can create a training workshop for you or a personal session for you or your familiy to strengthen your understanding of these differences and how to respond to them. Contact us to discuss your training ideas or check out our full training list.
Links Read more by following these links: Seeing Movement Movement Disturbances Movement and Autism Autcomm A closer look at possibilities A conversation with Martha Leary Rexamining Behaviour