IN THIS ISSUE...
REGULARS
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Close Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Cummings and Goings . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
COVER STORY
Autistic Self-Advocate
Helping Kids Succeed
in a Broken Educational
System
SWAT: Special Ways and Techniques for Educating Students
with Autism for Maximum
Academic and Social Inclusion
(Part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Stephen Shore shares ideas for teachers on
how to make sure all students’ academic
and social needs are met in Part One of his
SWAT series.
Carol Greenburg says it’s her autism that helps
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(Autism & Love) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Spotlight on Success
52
(Children of the Rainbow) . . . . . . . . . . . .
This Issue’s Q&A Question
If you could let a teacher (past or
present) know just one thing about
you (if you are autistic) or your autistic child (if you are the parent), what
would it be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
FEATURES
Chloe Rothschild and Dena
Gassner discuss the mentor/
mentee bond and how their relationship with each other has
positively shaped who
they are.
Spotlight on Success
keep things in the conference room and out of
The Importance of
Mentors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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Letter from the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . .
Zoom In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
her be such a great advocate and allows her to
the hearing room!
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Legislation Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Easy Tips to Make
the Transition Back to
School Easier . . . . . . . . 39
Dr. Jamie Carter and Ahna
O’Shaughbessy share a few
easy ideas that will make any
transition smoother. COLUMNS
ZOOM Autism through Many Lenses
Creating a Workstation
on a Budget . . . . . . . . . 16
Autistic, Adult, Brown, Alive and
Still Invisible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08
Editor Sharon Fuentes, with the
help of her autistic son Jacob,
share how to create a budgetfriendly homework/work
station that addresses many
sensory, attention and executive functioning challenges.
Michael Buckholtz shares what it is like
for him to live in a world that continues to
teach its citizenry that peoples with brown
skin are less valuable than those who are
not.
You won’t want to miss reading the answers!
Coming Next Issue: Thinking Person’s
Guide to Autism co-founder and editor
Shannon Des Roches Rosa
ZOOM Autism through Many Lenses
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