How policing AI-sounding writing can harm autistic people, plus a course on different ways to learn for people with multiple disabilities. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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How policing AI-sounding writing can harm autistic people, plus a course on different ways to learn for people with multiple disabilities. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
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This week I take a look at accessibility issues and solutions for people with one or more disabilities. Things aren’t always as they seem, for bad and for good! Some autistic people naturally write like AI — whoops! I mean, AI has learned to write using patterns that come naturally to some autistic people. And some non-autistic people, for that matter.
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“More Than One Way In” is a succinct, 6-module course designed to help people who have multiple disabilities to discover that they can learn, and different ways to do it. It’s also for anyone who has ever felt that the learning methods they’ve experienced were not right for them. Each module only takes a few minutes. I finished the whole thing in one sitting and loved it!
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More plain text adventures next week. Currently exploring the simplest possible digital task management system that isn't a todo list scrawled on the back of an envelope.
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