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Its So Hard On The Rest Of Us
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Neurotypical Awareness: Understanding is Essential
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Did You Know
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Shining a Light for Neurotypical Awareness
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Neurotypical Awareness: For the Children
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Caught Inside a Paradox: How Cultural Representations Perpetuate Disability Stigma
Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversitySpring-Summer semester, 2012 Beginning with Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking 1963 book Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity — a masterful examination of the nature of stigma as a social construct — scholars and activists over…
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On Communication and Double Standards: David Smukler’s Critique of the Theory of Mind Theory of Autism
Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversityFall-Winter semester, 2011-2012 The Theory of Mind (ToM) theory of autism posits that autistic people lack a core brain module that would enable them to understand the perspectives of other people and empathize with their thoughts,…
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Deconstructing Autism as an Empathy Disorder: A Literature Review
Rachel Cohen-RottenbergUnion Institute & UniversityFall-Winter semester, 2011-2012 When engaging the question of whether autistic people experience empathy, one finds a very wide gap between the conclusions of the most widely accepted research studies and the lived experiences of people with…
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