Posts by Hilary Stace
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Emma Hart,
That's the sort of information that should be in school sex ed.
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Nobody seems to be doing any educating about disability and sex.
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When I was on a school board. a few years ago, we had to do the required consultation with the school community (ie parents) about sex ed. I went to the meeting which was attended by a few parents, only one who had any real concerns (and I think she was from a religious family). But it was fascinating hearing how the teachers approached the whole subject and this was for Year 9s or 12-13 year olds. It was part of the health curriculum and came under the framework of keeping yourself safe, so included being assertive and being confident to speak up for yourself or others, identifying bullying behaviours and how to address them (including saying no to sex, alcohol etc), finding help (and having approachable school counsellors and a visiting nurse), and other generally healthy behaviour stuff. They did do the condom practice and the anatomical stuff too but as just another skill to learn. You could even get NCEA credits later on.
What the school was proud of at the time was that this a) wasn't particularly embarrassing or cringemaking b) Kids readily used the school counsellors and encouraged their friends to go c) teenage pregnancies there were very rare.
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What happened? Didn't a recent Listener say they failing first time at something was a good thing, rather than a disaster?
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Pleased to see that an article on Aspiritech has made it to Stuff. It’s one of the companies that has been inspired by Danish Thorkil Sonne’s Specialisterne intitiative and now goal to employ 1 million autistic people worldwide in software testing by franchising this model.
There are a few such enterprises in Iceland, England and Scotland, and last heard India, inspired by Specialisterne. Our Russell B and some others in the sector tried to get him to NZ in 2009 when he was in Australia for the APAC09 autism conference in Sydney but the conference organisers wouldn’t let him come here (so much for sector solidarity), and now he is too busy and famous to come to NZ without some major organisational effort, But I heard him speak there and he is a quietly charismatic speaker with a powerful idea. He ran a conference earlier this year in Denmark for those interested in the franchising the concept which I would have loved to go to, but next time we should sponsor someone to attend. I also know of someone in Brisbane trying to get a similar enterprise off the ground.
Just needs someone entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and knowledgeable to initiate a project here. I would be happy to cheer them on.
It is not THE answer to employment and autism, but is one model that could benefit a lot of people in many ways.
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Thought I would just have a quick look. 15 minutes later ...
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Hasn't quite finished. Here's the police report on the Sunday programme
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And the DomPost today (not on line) gives Nicky Hagar a single-spaced small-font little corner of the paper to reply to the paper's previous three negative responses to his book.
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Minor threadjack but related. Have been watching the Occupy Wall Street protest this weekend which some are seeing as the beginning of the US's 'Arab uprising'. For some reason the local media empires have refused to cover it.
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What a great line up and hope it will be available somewhere on line for those of us not in Akld.
Some comments:
a)Philip Patson is one of the wisest people I have ever heard
c) Jacinda Adern will go far - I've long predicted she and Grant R will be Labour's leadership team one day (probably not too far away)
b) Gender and Women's Studies at Victoria University was a safe place for academic research by/for/about trans gender issues, and it is very sad that this whole department has recently been exterminated.