Holden thank you so much for this! I'm sharing it with my long-time friends whose son was diagnosed with Aspergers when we went to Binkley Baptist preschool. He's all grown up, married, and is a math teacher. I still remember when I gave him every map I owned.
Holden, this is a fabulously written and interesting piece. I certainly landed on your side of the argument after reading it- particularly the merging of social and medical models. Thank you!
Part of the reason I landed on your side is empirical. I spend time with 75 tier 1 and tier 2 autistic 4-12 graders every every week as part of my pet therapy work and serving on the board of the school. The variation in how autism presents itself among these 75 kids is huge. I mean the differences in the social presentation of behaviors between the autistic kids at the school is probably as large as the behavioral differences between the 75 autistic children vs a random sample of neurotypical children. That kind of variation is still very hard to explain in a medical model.
Holden thank you so much for this! I'm sharing it with my long-time friends whose son was diagnosed with Aspergers when we went to Binkley Baptist preschool. He's all grown up, married, and is a math teacher. I still remember when I gave him every map I owned.
Holden, this is a fabulously written and interesting piece. I certainly landed on your side of the argument after reading it- particularly the merging of social and medical models. Thank you!
Part of the reason I landed on your side is empirical. I spend time with 75 tier 1 and tier 2 autistic 4-12 graders every every week as part of my pet therapy work and serving on the board of the school. The variation in how autism presents itself among these 75 kids is huge. I mean the differences in the social presentation of behaviors between the autistic kids at the school is probably as large as the behavioral differences between the 75 autistic children vs a random sample of neurotypical children. That kind of variation is still very hard to explain in a medical model.
Thank you for sharing your experience and this analysis. I am looking forward to your book.