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Education Survey For All

TheCatWoman

Except it isn't, it's for people looking at the societies education pages and how useful they were. I think the title was misleading, as there nothing about education and just stuff about the site, maybe I misread something, but again it seems to be all biased towards children and parents.

Some of us are independent adults who lacked educational opportunity because of lack of diagnosis and struggle through on our own, where are we in your survey?

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  • I'm with you on this one  

    I've had a good look at them and the questionnaire too.

    The education pages themselves are strongly biased towards patients carers and teaching professionals rather than autistic students themselves.

    They are deficit biased and heavily geared towards education needs in childhood and youth.

    There are some pretty big omissions too - nothing about homeschooling (I have family experience of the necessity of that), "girls" are only explicitly cited for professional tips and maybe the biggest one is that it's all about trying to mitigate the challenges to rather than promoting the strengths of autistic people.

    So yep.  I agree that it's a good idea that the NAS are looking at reviewing them.

    Unfortunately the questionnaire itself exhibits many of the same problems as the resource itself.  The biggest of which being that question 4 alienates the biggest group missing in the resource itself - autistic people themselves!!!  It leans hard into children being the reason for the survey and putting "parent" and professional at the top of the choices again caregivers and professionals are identified as being the primary "target" of the questionnaire.

    Armed with is I went to the survey armed with this to address these points in my answers - and maybe anyone from the NAS reading this response to you will register the problems too.

    Interestingly for someone like me going to the webpages to truly assess them in order to give a rational answer to the survey I had to answer "No" it didn't provide the answers in order to make a response!!!

    If I was feeling a bit more "up for it" myself at present I'd back that up with an e-mail to the NAS on the topic too.

    The thing is, perhaps that the sort of attitudes the education pages and the survey itself shows go into the sort of conditioning autistic people have by society that makes me and others "not feel up to" doing something about it..?

    Thanks for raising the thread  

  • in reply to Phased

    There is a whole section on home schooling in the education choices part.

    I think you make good points about it being deficit biased and targeted towards adults themselves. It is important there is an adult section as they will be the ones making a lot of decisions about children's education but it would be good to have a section for children to access too.

    I haven't filled in the survey yet. I had a quick glance. As I don't need to access the education part of the website I found it hard to answer the questions because I'm not trying to find information. However, I think I should be filling it in to help support others. I will have another look when I have more time and feel a bit more informed about what I am answering.

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  • in reply to Phased

    There is a whole section on home schooling in the education choices part.

    I think you make good points about it being deficit biased and targeted towards adults themselves. It is important there is an adult section as they will be the ones making a lot of decisions about children's education but it would be good to have a section for children to access too.

    I haven't filled in the survey yet. I had a quick glance. As I don't need to access the education part of the website I found it hard to answer the questions because I'm not trying to find information. However, I think I should be filling it in to help support others. I will have another look when I have more time and feel a bit more informed about what I am answering.

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