Nick Walker's Doctoral Dissertation Part 1

Vince and Vanessa fly through part 1 of excitedly describing Nick Walker’s doctoral dissertation, which is entitled: Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration. As you can imagine, Vanessa is completely delighted. Nick Walker’s doctoral dissertation Walker, Nick (2019) Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration. [Doctoral Dissertaion, California Institute of Integral Studies]. https://neuroqueer.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nick_Walker_Dissertation.pdf ABA causing harm Citations from Nick Walker’s dissertation about lifelong post-traumatic stress symptoms: Asasumasu, K. (2013b, November 7). The tyranny of indistinguishability: performance [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://timetolisten.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-tyranny-of-indistinguishability.html Bascom, J. (2012). Quiet hands. In J. Bascom (Ed.), Loud hands: Autistic people, speaking (pp. 177–182). Washington, DC: Autistic Press. Dawson, M. (2004). The misbehaviour of behaviourists: Ethical challenges to the autism-ABA industry. Retrieved from http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_aba.html Kupferstein, H. (2018). Evidence of increased PTSD symptoms in autistics exposed to applied behavior analysis. Advances in Autism, (4)1, 19–29. Silberman, S. (2015). NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity. New York, NY: Avery. Yergeau, M. (2018). Authoring autism: On rhetoric and neurological queerness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.