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My Research
My findings will be valuable to school administrators, school boards, and provincial governments. It is my hope that parents whose children are subject to behavioural interventions, and those students themselves, will find in this theory tools and information they can use for advocacy and self-advocacy.
Neuronormative Hegemony and Neurotypical Biopower
Towards A Theory of Neurotypical Biopower
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
The principles of behaviourism are ubiquitous throughout society, especially in public education, and in particular with Autistic students. For more than three decades, experts in child development have expressed increasing concerns about the potential psychological harm caused by their use.
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
Autism, behaviourism, and covert methods of social control. ABA is a type of therapy popularized through B.F. Skinner's theories of behaviour published in the 1950s, but had been introduced much earlier by John Broadus Watson in 1913.
State-Sponsored Ableism
Ableism and The Biopolitics of Neuronormativity
Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony
Public schools are institutions of conformity and control. Behaviourism is highly prevalent in our public education system, especially with vulnerable populations in “special needs” schools and classrooms, and with Autistic students. It is a form of power and control…
Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony
Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony
Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony
In the Spring of 2022, lawyer and writer Ariana Cernius published an article in Fortune Magazine entitled, The autistic community is having a reckoning with ABA therapy. We should listen. The human health sciences uphold and perpetuate an ideology of neuronormativity.
Defining Neuronormative Ideology
Biophilanthropy and Neuronormative Hegemony
Defining Neuronormative Ideology
Ideologies are beliefs and mental frameworks which influence how we interpret our experiences. I have developed three defining features of neuronormative ideology....