Sharon DaVanport of AWN is looking for some input.
In preparation for my upcoming talk on cyberbullying at AANE’s Fall Conference, I ‘d like your input on the following.
When does freedom of speech cross over to cyberbullying?
What positive strategies have you used when encountering online bullying?
Parents/Teachers: Do your school districts have a cyberbullying policy or guidelines which they enforce?
Psychologists/Therapists: How serious can this kind of trauma be to individuals enduring online attacks?
Thank You!
[ if you prefer to contact me privately, my email is: sharon@autismwomensnetwork.org ]
Can you tell me if there are any GOOD autism organizations that one could donate to instead of Autism Speaks? Please respond as quickly as you can. I'm trying to divert a fundraiser for AS.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is an organization that definitely deserves that money more than AutSpeaks.
For real, get on board with self-advocacy! Autism Speaks is a huge NO.
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Yeah, ASAN is DEFINITELY a good one to donate to.
Autism Women’s Network is one if you want to be a little more specialized. (Yes, I’m a founding board member and Director of Advocacy; Also, please read over our approach to Gender, we do not subscribe to the gender binary.) We are talking about creating a scholarship fund for Autistic women for schooling too but we’ll see… I think that start up funds on that to get that going might take a while to materialize. We are an incorported non-profit in Nebraska at this point.
Autism Network International is long running and puts on Autreat. Money towards providing scholarships for low income Autistics to attend Autreat is always needed. If you scroll down past the Autreat stuff on the given page, it gets to Stuff about ANI including the ANI goals and Philosophy. They Have a membership fee of $15 (lifetime I think?). I *Think* You can contact Jim Sinclair about donations, but I’d wait till the end of August as it’s Autreat time in a week and xe might not be able to get to your inquiry right away.
If on the other hand you are looking at an alternative for large fundraising projects, while you could do it for one of us your other option is finding a service provider in your area that you support and raising directly for them. Enabling them to give scholarships for things like sensory work or life skills or whatever could help local people directly, without supporting someplace icky like Autism Speaks (Who keeps a rather disconcerting percentage of the funds from local events in addition to other stuff bout them that is ick.)
Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability Community
The office of Commissioner Felblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scheduled a meeting with representatives from the disability and business communities to discuss the use of personality…
I had to help someone with one of these recently… they are bloody awful - long and mind-numbing. They also use a lot of college-level words that I barely know.
They also are a barrier for people who have English as their second (or third) language. They are an amalgam of (the above mentioned) college-level words and idioms and figures of speech.
Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability Community
The office of Commissioner Felblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scheduled a meeting with representatives from the disability and business communities to discuss the use of personality tests as pre-employment screening tools. The Autism Women’s Network will be in attendance, represented by Lindsey Nebeker, AWN’s Washington DC Liaison. Lindsey would like to hear from anyone in the disability community about their personal experiences with these tests, especially in regards to any concerns you may have. Please email your replies to info@autismwomensnetwork.org no later than 3:00PM EDT on Monday June 20, 2011. Thank you for your input.
Please reblog! This is an important issue! Employment personality tests create barriers to employment for those with MH Disabilities and DDs.Note that she’s not just looking for autistic input- if you have a disability and have a comment on these “tests”, please let her know!
I personally have seen questions (when trying for employment, particularly at Staples or the like) that held a bias against those who have abused or a victim of violent crime. (Plus, I even failed *walmart*’s personality test somehow?)
oh god those tests i hate them so much. i have to lie in order to get past them, due to my mental disabilities - which is not something i should have to do. period.
Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability Community
The office of Commissioner Felblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scheduled a meeting with representatives from the disability and business communities to discuss the use of personality tests as pre-employment screening tools. The Autism Women’s Network will be in attendance, represented by Lindsey Nebeker, AWN’s Washington DC Liaison. Lindsey would like to hear from anyone in the disability community about their personal experiences with these tests, especially in regards to any concerns you may have. Please email your replies to info@autismwomensnetwork.org no later than 3:00PM EDT on Monday June 20, 2011. Thank you for your input.
Please reblog! This is an important issue! Employment personality tests create barriers to employment for those with MH Disabilities and DDs.Note that she’s not just looking for autistic input- if you have a disability and have a comment on these “tests”, please let her know!
I personally have seen questions (when trying for employment, particularly at Staples or the like) that held a bias against those who have abused or a victim of violent crime. (Plus, I even failed *walmart*’s personality test somehow?)
Plus, honestly, a lot of them have confusingly-worded questions, and I have to guess at what their intended meaning is, so I’m not sure if I’m answering “correctly” or not.
Me too.
Christy: nicocoer: Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability…
Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability Community
The office of Commissioner Felblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scheduled a meeting with representatives from the disability and business communities to discuss the use of personality…
These questions are terrible for many autistics, mostly because they expect a certain type of social prediction that is much easier for non-autistic people to employ. I wish that these tests would be eliminated, and that interviews would focus as much on competency as much as they did on difficult-to-define NT social skills.
—Noël
Pre-Employment Personality Tests and the Disability Community
The office of Commissioner Felblum of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scheduled a meeting with representatives from the disability and business communities to discuss the use of personality tests as pre-employment screening tools. The Autism Women’s Network will be in attendance, represented by Lindsey Nebeker, AWN’s Washington DC Liaison. Lindsey would like to hear from anyone in the disability community about their personal experiences with these tests, especially in regards to any concerns you may have. Please email your replies to info@autismwomensnetwork.org no later than 3:00PM EDT on Monday June 20, 2011. Thank you for your input.
Please reblog! This is an important issue! Employment personality tests create barriers to employment for those with MH Disabilities and DDs.Note that she’s not just looking for autistic input- if you have a disability and have a comment on these “tests”, please let her know!
I personally have seen questions (when trying for employment, particularly at Staples or the like) that held a bias against those who have abused or a victim of violent crime. (Plus, I even failed *walmart*’s personality test somehow?)
DRAFT: Gender statement
Below is the draft I came up with based on the feedback from my SOS post and some help from the trans* community, including eateroftrees. Please let me know if you have further feed back, and share so this gets out. I need to submit my final draft by Monday, April 18th 2011. Thanks again for all your feedback!
Statement on Gender
AWN both recognizes and affirms each individual’s gender identity. We will not tolerate abusive behavior based on perceived or actual gender identity and presentation. We recognize that gender is not a binary, and that one can identify with “woman” and a non-binary gender at the same time. We also recognize that some people may have a varying gender identity, and may identify as a woman at some times but not others. We would like to take this opportunity to welcome all women, and supporters of women, to join our community.
We wish to specifically welcome trans women, as well as non-binary and gender variant individuals who have claimed, in some way, the identity of woman or girl. While our leadership is exclusively those who identify as Autistic Women, we believe that you claim your identity, not that you are assigned it. We hope to provide the same support, networking, and community to those who have had to claim their identity as to those who haven’t.
We wish to recognize and affirm the experiences of those who do not identify as women currently but have in some way in the past. Too often, gender biases are based not on our identities but on how other people believe we should identify. We welcome the input of those who have been misgendered as women, and who feel that the ways they have been misgendered give them a common experience with girls or women.
We also welcome the support and community of those who do not and have never identified as women. AWN works to center the experiences of Autistic Women, and want our allies to support us in that work. We believe that community of choice is more important than being divisive, and hope that you feel safe and welcome in helping us build that, regardless of gender identity.
A little SOS
I need to write a statement about accepting trans* folk for AWN. But I’m nervous about writing it. eep.
If you want to help, and have a non-cis gender ID, please email me savannah@autismwomensnetwork.org)
Basically I want to make it so that it is clear we welcome trans women, non-binary folk who have some sort of connection to the ID of women, and those who have been the brunt of misogyny and/or who have had to deal with sterotypes of being a “girl” even if that wasn’t your ID (outcomes of being CAFAB).
But ahhhhh I am not sure how to do that and I’m all worried about wording it wrong and having people go o_0 at me or fucking it up. Eep.
Help?
