Deaf studies meets autistic studies

Friedner, Michele; Block, Pamela

doi:10.1080/17458927.2017.1369716

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“…AAS 18,26 The AAS assesses nonautistic individuals' knowledge about autism. Originally developed by Stone, 21 the scale has been adapted and revised by Tipton and Blacher 20 to measure health care professional and undergraduate students' knowledge of autism, respectively. Tipton and Blacher's 20 version of the scale was used in the current study.…”

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The Development and Pilot-Testing of the Autism Attitude Acceptance Scale: An Instrument Measuring Autism Acceptance

Kim

2020

Autism in Adulthood

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Background: Although previous studies have measured attitudes about autism to understand ways to ameliorate stigmatized beliefs, nonautistic individuals' acceptance of autism is still not well understood. This study aimed to develop and pilot test the Autism Attitude Acceptance Scale (AAAS), a self-report instrument that measures nonautistic adults' autism acceptance based on the neurodiversity framework, and examine the associations between autism acceptance and purported variables (disability-related experience/awareness variables and demographic characteristics). Methods: The author piloted the AAAS with 122 nonautistic adults. Principal component analysis and reliability analysis were used to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the AAAS. The associations between the AAAS and autism knowledge, the quantity and quality of previous contact, neurodiversity awareness, and demographic variables were examined using Pearson's r correlations, t-tests, and analyses of variance. Results: The author constructed two subscales of the AAAS, General Acceptance (GA) and Attitudes toward Treating Autistic Behaviors (ATAB). The GA measures the acceptance of autism as a unique way of being, willingness to provide support to autistic individuals, and feeling comfortable while interacting with them. The ATAB measures how strongly a person believes that receiving treatments to reduce autistic symptoms will or will not benefit autistic individuals. The GA was associated with autism knowledge, quality and quantity of previous contact with autistic individuals, neurodiversity awareness, gender, ethnicity, and education level of participants. The ATAB was significantly associated with autism knowledge and quality and quantity of previous contact; the ATAB did not have any significant associations with neurodiversity awareness and demographic variables. Conclusions: The AAAS, which validly and reliably measures nonautistic individuals' autism acceptance, identified the subgroups with low autism acceptance. This study calls for further examination of the underlying mechanism of autism acceptance and neurodiversity framework to restructure nonautistic individuals' attitudes about autism.

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“…The autistic culture of acceptance was considered similar to the acceptance in the deaf culture. 20,21 There are different ways to be in the world Such differences should be valued…”

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The Development and Pilot-Testing of the Autism Attitude Acceptance Scale: An Instrument Measuring Autism Acceptance

Kim

2020

Autism in Adulthood

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“…Finally, I briefly turn to Friedner and Block's (, 287) discussion of how the fields of deaf studies and autistic studies can inform one another. The authors argue that work by autistic scholars and self‐advocates “ruptures normative ideas of what it means to communicate and to desire communication” (see also Thomas and Boellstorff ).…”

Section: Linguistic Anthropology Could Be Otherwisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, they describe how attendees at the Society for Disability Studies annual conference placed color‐coded stickers on their attendance badges to indicate whether they wished to be approached and engaged in interaction. Friedner and Block (, 291) note that this “structuring, and at time refusal, of communicative sociality” provides an alternative perspective to that of the intense desire for communication often centered in discussions of deaf sociality. These perspectives can further unsettle discussions, such as those highlighted above, about what should not be taken for granted about modes and effects of contact and copresence.…”

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“…Friedner and Block (, 295) stress the importance of developing “research methodologies that are inclusive of deaf and autistic peoples’ ontologies and epistemologies.” In turn, I conclude this section by stressing the importance of asking how linguistic anthropological methods and theories have been mutually constitutive with the imagination and enactment of ableist worlds, as this is an area relatively underexplored in our efforts to critically evaluate our subdiscipline (though see, for example, Goodwin ). How can linguistic anthropology contribute to and “take our cue from” (Rosa and Bonilla , 4) efforts to imagine “both research and everyday worlds in which there are both more disabled researchers and more disabled people” (Friedner and Block , 284)?…”

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Linguistic Anthropology in 2017: It Could Be Otherwise

Hoffmann‐Dilloway

2018

American Anthropologist

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In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that anthropology is about "imagining alternative worlds." In the first section, "Presence(s), Contact(s), and their Alternatives," I focus on work that refines our analytical grasp of the semiotic processes underlying past, current, and projected realities, possibilities, and engagements. The second section, "Shifting Political Economies," deals with publications that specifically explore how political economic conditions are otherwise than was the case when linguistic anthropologists began formulating approaches to the political economies of language in the immediate post-Cold War period. In a third section, "Evidence and/of Imagination," I examine how linguistic anthropological works published in the period under review have used the terms "imagine/imagined/imaginary" in polyvalent senses when exploring how alternative worlds are conceived and produced, and consider how this nontechnical term can allow scholars to evade or to open up questions of scale and evidence. The final section, "Linguistic Anthropology Could be Otherwise," takes up work in 2017 that asks how the practice of linguistic anthropology itself could be-and should be-otherwise in terms of our engagements outside the field and the scope of our theoretical and political imaginations. [linguistic anthropology, semiotics, alternatives, imagination, political economies]RESUMEN En esta revisión, discuto los trabajos recientes que corporeizan la aserción de Monica Heller (2017, 12) que la antropología es acerca de "imaginarnos mundos alternativos." En la primera sección, "Presencia(s), contacto(s), y sus alternativas", me enfoco en el trabajo que refina nuestra comprensión analítica de los procesos semióticos subyacentes de las realidades, posibilidades y compromisos pasados, actuales y proyectados. La segunda sección, "Economías políticas cambiantes", se ocupa de las publicaciones que exploran específicamente cómo las condiciones económicas políticas son de otra manera de lo que era el caso cuando antropólogos lingüísticos empezaron formulando aproximaciones a las economías políticas del lenguaje en el período inmediato de post-Guerra Fría. En una tercera sección, "Evidencia y/de imaginación," examino cómo los trabajos antropológicos lingüísticos publicados en el período bajo revisión han usado los términos "imaginar/imaginado/imaginario" en sentidos polivalentes cuando exploran cómo mundos alternativos son concebidos y producidos, y consideran cómo este término no técnico puede permitir a los investigadores evadir o abrirse a cuestiones de escala y evidencia. La sección final, "Antropología lingüística podría ser de otra manera", se ocupa de trabajo en el 2017 que interroga cómo la práctica de antropología lingüística en sí misma podría ser -y debería ser-de otra manera en términos de nuestros compromisos por fuera del campo y elámbito de nuestras imaginaciones teóricas y políticas. [antropología lingüística, semiótica, alternativas, imaginación, economías pol...

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