Could have been me
On July 24th, Dainell Simmons had a meltdown. He lived at a group home, an innocent-looking little institution that pretended to be a normal house. Staff called the police. The police killed Dainell
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I am referencing your blog for a book chapter I have written. I am wondering how you would like the credit to appear? It is in a book about autism and future trends in research. The chapter I am writing is called, Shifting paradigms: An examination of our understanding of adult autism. In this chapter, I call for a move away from the medical model to a social model of understanding autism and a deconstruction of ableistic assumptions about people on the spectrum.
I reference your discussion of Lovaas and the drive to change the young person with autism to be indistinguishable from typically developed peers, while at the same time this type of therapy has been repudiated in relationship to therapy for young persons via the Feminine Boys Project. I thought your discussion was a terrific analysis.
Here is the passage and how your work is currently acknowledged:
On the Internet, one can find conversations about applied behavior analysis (ABA), for example, in which adults with autism liken these remedies to homosexual conversion therapy, which has been widely discredited (Reports from a Resident Alien, 2013).
Warmest regards,
Rhonda J. Greenhaw
rgreenhaw@towson.edu
262-707-3257
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