Heart For Autism

[Rebekah Corlett (MNZM) @rebekahcorlett]

I really resent the fact that PB4L is touted by MoE as a successful strategy to avoid stand down/suspension/expulsion/exclusion in our schools. Its behaviourism, its ableist - and for our neurodivergent ākonga its akin to ABA. 🚩 🚩 🚩

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@rebekahcorlett Learned this years ago at last MoE Building on Success For All Forum and yet nothing has changed around data collection. Feeling angry!

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

Seclusion still exists in hospitals and prisons, it was only outlawed in schools in 2017. Physical restraint still occurs in schools. Ableism and eugenics are still rife.

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

NZ did this. It devalued disabled lives. We must learn from our mistakes and say never again. https://t.co/zGigQI8onV'

[Thomas Coughlan @coughlthom]

Leaked docs show govt. advised to decline KO budget bids over fears agency’s debt becoming unsustainable. Average interest cost for a housing place has doubled in 3Y.

KO considering pausing work to make houses accessible for disabled and improve heating.

https://t.co/t5GFWOCJar

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@coughlthom Hugely concerning when all homes should be universally designed for accessibility.

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@NZQandA Any of the 42 recommendations from the Welfare Expert Advisory Group from 2019 have yet to be implemented.

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@NZQandA Thanks for highlighting thus issue for the disability community

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

Adding my thanks to @AshBloomfield for his guidance of NZ through the last 2 years through a major pandemic. I've appreciated his humility, genuineness, and hard work.

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@HennigAAC Thanks for the sacrifice leading to creating change

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@PaulaTesoriero Yikes. Hope you are okay!

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@RachelWBowman I have recently involved in a research project around education (can we lose the term special ed too) where we explicitly used identity first language.

[Carson Tueller @carson_tueller]

Ableism looks like calling disabled people “inspiring” for navigating a system that is designed for their exclusion, while doing nothing to hold the system accountable. #ableism #disabled #accesstolife

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@journalautism Great to see this sort of research happening in NZ.

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@Jasonwalls92 Congrats on securing the cup

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@ezbear Need better protection for our children in schools. Disabled students over represented in use of physical restraint against them.
#inclusiveeducation

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

@ChildrensCommNZ #notjustpovertystats #inclusiveeducation

[Heart For Autism @JoanneD50]

By @aspergersgirls
"Have Autistic representation when you are speaking about us"

Our voices matter, let our voices be heard.

[Jason Boberg @jgboberg]

We are still living in an time where non-disabled orgs are rewriting disability history, for their own profit.

This is systematic ableism.
It's not new.

#AbleismIsTrash