Thank you for an incredible Symposium!
Your engagement and excitement have been inspiring and transformative for us all.
Social Justice spaces are difficult to create and sustain. Inclusion and access are works in progress, and we are committed to this work. These spaces are also relational and collaborative, and we continue to invite you all into this space so that we can have productive, meaningful, and difficult conversations.
We want to acknowledge that behind the scenes we received complaints about language use in a session title regarding autism (person first language), and we just want to acknowledge that many autistic individuals claim autistic identity with pride, and that autistic and neurodiverse people do not consider autism a medical condition. We were given this information on identity first language from the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, which we share with our community: https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/identity-first-language/
Social Justice spaces are difficult to create and sustain. Inclusion and access are works in progress, and we are committed to this work. These spaces are also relational and collaborative, and we continue to invite you all into this space so that we can have productive, meaningful, and difficult conversations.
We want to acknowledge that behind the scenes we received complaints about language use in a session title regarding autism (person first language), and we just want to acknowledge that many autistic individuals claim autistic identity with pride, and that autistic and neurodiverse people do not consider autism a medical condition. We were given this information on identity first language from the Autism Self-Advocacy Network, which we share with our community: https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/identity-first-language/