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Image credits: anon #3. Psychology class. Our final was to research and to a presentation on a mental illness. One group chose necrophilia. Started with the first slide saying 'lets crack open a ...
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior is a 2005 book by Temple Grandin and co-written by Catherine Johnson. Animals in Translation explores the similarity between animals and people with autism, a concept that was originally touched upon in Grandin's 1995 book Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism.
The speech may range from the newest, high tech inventions from around the world to cure cancer to lighthearted topics, such as Wikipedia. The speech is supposed to be objective, without any judgement or evaluation of the topic. [3] The speaker's job is to make a complex topic easier to understand. In intercollegiate competition, the time limit ...
Autism rights movement (ARM) – (a subset of the neurodiversity movement, also known as the anti-cure movement or autistic culture movement) is a social movement that encourages autistic people, their caregivers and society to adopt a position of neurodiversity, accepting autism as a variation in functioning rather than a mental disorder to be ...
Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism [1] come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. [2] The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps; the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm.
Special interests can sometimes interfere with other areas of a person's life, such as school. [29] In children, incorporating a child's special interest into their education has been shown to improve learning outcomes, [30] [28] increase attention on learning topics [31] and teach behaviours such as sportsmanship. [32]
The Way I See It: A Personal Look At Autism And Asperger's (2008), ISBN 9781932565720; Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best life for Animals (with Catherine Johnson, 2009), ISBN 978-0-15-101489-7; Improving animal welfare: a practical approach (2010). ISBN 978-1-84593-541-2, CABI, UK
The Tournament of Champions (TOC) is a national high school speech and debate tournament held at the University of Kentucky every year in a weekend in April. Tournament of Champions is considered to be the national championship of the “National Circuit", and is one of the most prestigious and competitive American high school speech and debate tournaments.