Episode 10 – 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.

Show Notes

Nick Walker’s doctoral dissertation

Walker, Nick (2019) Transformative Somatic Practices and Autistic Potentials: An Autoethnographic Exploration. [Doctoral Dissertaion, California Institute of Integral Studies].


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.

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