TAAProject in Oprah Magazine This Month
Filed Under (Activism) by Estee on 24-01-2010
The Autism Acceptance Project made the grade in this month’s issue of Oprah magazine. In “100 Things That Are Getting Better,” TAAProject made it for autism acceptance (number 69 to be exact).
We (of The Autism Acceptance Project) are humbled and proud of this and it comes at a time when we are rethinking the website and the content and conjuring new projects. Thank you, Oprah, for acknowledging autism acceptance.
Also, as I go to other autism programs these days, I feel a movement towards change, even though we have farther to go. There are more programs that do not treat my child as a burden or abnormal, but more (but still not enough) that honour his way of learning and who he is as an autistic person. I thank also all those people (there are so many more) who also who work towards ensuring that autistic people be treated as equal and valuable human beings.
ESTÉE KLAR
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Writer/Curator/Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project. Lecturer on autism & the media, and parenting. Graduate student Critical Disability Studies, York University. I like to write about our journey, musings, attitudes towards autism.
Wonderful, wonderful!
I think so too!