Delyse Clayden Advocacy in Darch | Educational consultant

Delyse Clayden Advocacy

Locality: Darch

Phone: +61 422 703 731

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25.01.2022 Reward systems for memorizing times tables, with public announcements of who has memorized their facts and who has not are discriminatory to dyslexic children. ...This is felt as public shaming. STOP this practice. What do dyslexic children need from their teachers to help@succeed at school? This book explains. https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Need-Tiffan//ref=mp_s_a_1_1 See more

23.01.2022 This might not be a popular topic, and it might shock some people. But it is necessary. Disabled people have sexual needs. As do elderly people, and, let's face it, pretty much everyone except the Nuns. Denying disabled people in getting assistive technology for their needs is a small minded, discriminatory action. What about quality of life? What about the dignity of being able to find pleasure? For the love of all that is good about the world, make noise people! Stand up ...for the rights of all people to be able to live their best lives, one penial pump at a time! It may sound like I am joking, but I am not. Think very hard for a moment and come up with a way of finding pleasure from your body if you do not have a partner, or hands that can stimulate you. Imagine living your life sexually frustrated, with no hope or means of pleasure. NDIA claim they want to better the lives of Disabled people? Well that includes mind, body and spirit. Who should be able to dictate if someone's sexual needs are important or not? I feel like we need to erect a billboard with a message like "keep your hands off my dildo!" right in front of parliament! I have seen the need for understanding of this issue first hand so to speak. A family member of mine was limited in his movements and enjoyed some visual stimulation from time to time. And the dignity and professionalism of the staff caring for him helped me realise that yes, those needs don't just go away because you are disabled. So please, make some noise, write some letters, discuss with your disabled loved ones what they need, and surely, after such a stressful year, help them find some pleasure in this crazy world!

21.01.2022 I worry that teachers get so fixated on the small things, that they fail to see the bigger picture. If they are late, then you need to realise what it took for them to get there, and know with embarrassment that they were going to possibly get in trouble. Yet they still came. They chose learning over personal shame. That is brave! If they don't dress to your standards, have hair longer than you would approve, come with food in their lunch box (or none) that you would never allow, hold your judgement. Because that kid is showing up. That kid has come to you to be educated. So do it! Don't judge them for things most likely out of their control. Be grateful they came to you. Take that responsibility seriously.

21.01.2022 What do dads worry about? We'd love to hear from you in the comments ... To hear more from dads including Clark Wight, Osher Günsberg, Peter Helliar, Tim Rogers... and others, take a listen to the brand new series of ABC's Parental As Anything podcast with Maggie Dent out now... https://www.abc.net.au//whats-it-like-to-be-a-mod/12555724

18.01.2022 Thank you to all the incredible dads who came to our Dads Autism Connect Pizza and Planning Session last night! These sessions give an opportunity for dads an...d father figures of children with Autism to talk openly about their experiences and contribute to planning the future direction of the group and activities. If you would like to have your say, join in on some great activities or just be part of a dedicated support network constructed by like minded people, then please register for Dads Autism Connect here or email for more information. https://bit.ly/3eqxNN3 [email protected]

14.01.2022 Update******* I’m hearing that some are having trouble with the online form on Facebook. You may also sign up via email. Email the words Just Teach Me pack wi...th your full name, email address, country and language preference (UK or US English) to [email protected] to sign up. ********************************** https://www.nessy.com/uk/just-teach-me/ Nessy believe all teachers should have a basic understanding of dyslexia. This October we are putting our money where are mouth is. We are giving it away, to any teacher anywhere in the world who wants to understand dyslexia. Sign up for a Just Teach Me awareness pack for the free codes for all the teachers you know. #untileveryonecanread #dyslexic #dyslexiaawareness #dyslexiamonth #dyslexiaweek #justteachme #mical #micalthefilm #dyslexiaentrepreneur

13.01.2022 Misbehavior Thank you, The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, for sharing this graphic. Students with dyslexia will often misbehave to avoid embarrassment or hum...iliation, out of frustration due to anxiety, or other reasons. There's always a reason behind their behavior. #dyslexia

12.01.2022 We are here for the heart kids, teens, adults and their families. Reach out if you need us at anytime. If you are a HeartKid, HeartTeen, HeartAdult or family me...mber, comment below or post on your own page with the tag #heartkid or #myheartkid to help spread the word about Congenital (or acquired during childhood), Heart Disease. See more

11.01.2022 Behavior may absolutely be communicating pain or fear or struggles. It may also be providing what we (Rick & Doris) like to think of as an "unveiling" - it reve...als areas of lagging skills and struggles with self-regulation that we can then identify and work on to help the child continue to move in the direction of meeting daily challenges in more and more adaptive ways. #resiliencewarriors

10.01.2022 Dyslexic students should not be receiving this treatment in schools. Want to learn how you can help? https://www.nessy.com/uk/just-teach-me/

09.01.2022 Just wondering if the group encounters rock stacks in the park much? Was astonished to see this level of vandalism at north lookout today. It’s an emerging threat that has significant implications for specialised fauna that depend on flake rock habitat.

04.01.2022 In recent years we've moved more and more toward viewing children who are struggling in this way, whether it's a result of trauma, neurological differences, or ...other reasons. It's so important that we also view ourselves in this way in light of all of the unexpected and challenging life experiences that so many of us have faced in recent months... ... ...I bet most of us can think of a "surface" behavior that we've done that we wish we hadn't, and if we think about the "underneath" we can likely have more compassion toward ourselves. ... ...Anything we can do right now to boost our compassion toward both kids AND OURSELVES AND OUR COLLEAGUES could be life-changing!! For US or for THEM!! #resiliencewarriors

04.01.2022 What I want you to know first and foremost is that I am autistic. I am an autistic person married to another autistic person, and we have created four perfectl...y whole autistic children. We are not broken versions of non autistic people. We are not second rate human beings. We are autistic people. We are not better or worse for it. We are autistic. We are not people with autism. We are not ASD people. We are not "on the spectrum". We are autistic. We choose. Autism is my identity and my culture; not my medical disorder or diagnosis. Whilst in this space, I will expect and assume that you will be culturally respectful. When you ask me to have a more "balanced" approach to autism, you are asking me to accept your trivialisation of my worth as an autistic person based on your struggles and not mine. When you tell me I dismiss the very real struggles associated with autism, your ignorance is highlighted in that you believe my autistic identity is yours to decide and to dictate. When you tell me I dismiss the very real struggles associated with autism, you overlook the reality of my struggles being created by those who overlook my identity and culture. When you tell me I dismiss the very real struggles associated with autism, I know you're not paying attention. You're seeing and hearing only what you're able to, based on your own experience. You're projecting your experience into my reality. That's your story; not mine. When you expect me to make you more comfortable, to alleviate your struggle as a non autistic person; you are adding to the very real struggles associated with autism. It is never the responsibility of the oppressed to educate the oppressor. When you are uncomfortable or offended by my writing, my speaking, my being, this is good. Discomfort is opportunity. It's both my opportunity and your opportunity to learn; to make choices. Will I reject this person's experience that is NOT about me, that is completely their own, and not for me to correct, fix and change? Or will I find ways to follow my discomfort and learn more? To eliminate, suppress or shutdown autistic ‘behaviour’ is to eliminate, suppress or shutdown autistic communication, identity and culture. To believe or to make the assumption that replacing our behaviour with ‘functional communication’ (based on non autistic communication) is better than what we already have is ableist and grossly presumptuous. To initiate families whose children are identified autistic with information that is fear mongering, centred on panic and distress embedded in ignorant and elusive future outcomes; to perpetuate the myth of an urgent and small ‘window of opportunity’ is abusive. It tells families that their autistic children are no good. That their every move, that their PLAY should be pathologised and intevervened in, that families can never truly relax and enjoy their children. It leads families to believe that they must centre their lives around finding the one miracle therapy, the one answer; it results in families truly believing they’re inadequate, that they’re failing their autistic children, all because their children remain autistic no matter what. It keeps autistic people from their culture, their identity, their peers, their kin, their place in the world. The elimination of autistic behaviour encourages us to mask all our lives, it doesn’t make us non autistic. The discouraging of autistic expression robs our non speaking autistic kin of communication completely. It creates a narrative of shame, fear and panic that is passed down through bloodlines over generations, resulting in intergenerational trauma. It results in unidentified autistic people seeking respite and reprieve in the first thing that eases the pain, grief, trauma and isolation of the unspoken knowledge that we are unacceptable. Alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, eating disorders, hoarding, anything that we are able to centre our focus on, anything that we can exercise the illusion of control over, all whilst slowly killing ourselves. Non speaking autistic children spoken about in their presence due to the assumption of their intelligence being congruent with how their move their bodies, the sounds they make, their ‘behaviour’. In professional practice, where one is exposed to the voices of the very community they purport to be supporting and ignore those voices, continuing to move forward with an agenda to normalise rather than actualise autistic people, that is unethical. It is an unapologetic contribution to oppression. It is a direct contribution to family distress and panic, disconnected parents from their autistic children and misunderstood, unsupported autistic people. It is a direct contribution to the higher rates of poor mental health outcomes, chronic long term illness and co occurring conditions and the suicide rates amongst our community. We don’t cultivate a culture of acceptance by continuing the drive for conformity, by refusing basic human rights to be accommodated and supported in schools and workplaces, and by calling us disordered. We have the right to decide who we are and to be celebrated. Families have the right to be supported to understand their children via access to their children’s neurokin in order to understand and accept our normal. Families need to know that there isn’t an urgency for early intervention just because of the word ‘autism’. Rather, just as we would any other human being; we can enjoy and embrace our autistic children and learn to tune in, intuitively, to observe and understand behaviour as communication and important clues into support needs. We can support our children when their needs are identified throughout their lives. We can move forward and treat autistic people with the respect and autonomy they have the right to. Please, learn from us. Educate yourself by listening to our lived experience and learn how to be culturally respectful. . . . Kristy Forbes inTune Pathways

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02.01.2022 We're going to fix this, I promise.

01.01.2022 We are pleased to announce that once again, the Autism Association of Western Australia, AASQA and the Department of Training... and Workforce Development are offering 5 VET course scholarships for 2021 funded by the Department to a value of up to $5,000 each. This scholarship is for students on the Autism Spectrum to undertake an appropriate VET course aimed at gaining employment in Information Technology (IT). The scholarship will meet the cost of course fees up to $5,000 (one enrolment per unit). For more information and to apply for the 2021 Scholarship, please click here - https://bit.ly/2ESptdb