A Therapist's Guide to Supporting Authentic, Autistic Social Communication
with Rachel Dorsey and V Tisi

7/5/23

We know by now that Autistic adults are the real experts on how Autistic people experience the world. In this episode, Autistic SLPs Rachel Dorsey and V Tisi take us deeper than we’ve ever gone into how we can understand and support authentic, Autistic social communication in any context. If you listen to this episode and want to keep learning, check out their newly released CE course Let’s UNMASC: Understanding the Needs and Motivations of Autistic Social communication at learnplaythrive.com/unmasc
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Show Notes

- Check out Rachel Dorsey and V. Tisi’s new course, Let’s UNMASC: Understanding the Needs and Motivations of Autistic Social Communication
- Learn more about the Double Empathy Problem
- The Double Empathy Problem with Dr. Damian Milton*
- The Culture Shock of Autism*
- “Autistic peer to peer information transfer is highly effective”* (Twitter thread with visuals & link to article)
- Come as you are: Examining autistic identity development and the neurodiversity movement through an intersectional lens*
- Intersectionality: Check out these podcast episodes & show notes
- Culturally Responsive Therapy: A Moral Imperative with AC Goldberg*
- Culturally Responsive Therapy for Native Autistic Kids with Jules Edwards*
- Who has a seat at the table? Thinking beyond representation and advocacy with Reyma McCoy Hyten*
- Research that Centers Autistic Well-Being as Defined by Autistics with Dr. T.C. Waisman* (& show notes!)
- More themes & related resources:
- Autistic development & pathologizing: Applying a Disability Studies Lens to Therapy with Chelsea Wallaert (& show notes)
- Gestalt Language Processing
- Regulation differences: A Different Approach to Self Regulation with Autism Level Up*
- Goals: The Neurodiversity Paradigm & Strengths-Based Goals with Rachel Dorsey*
- The cost of masking, Autistic Burnout: Unmasking Autism in Action with Dr. Devon Price*
- On self-advocacy: Changing the World with Books, Narwhals, and Letting Kids Say “No” with Lei Wiley-Mydske* (more related episodes/resources in show notes)
- The problems with functioning language
- Updated Whole Body Listening poster
*= one or more guests/authors/contributors are Autistic
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