{"id":1948,"date":"2020-04-14T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2020-04-14T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:27:36","slug":"death-of-mel-amanda-baggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/death-of-mel-amanda-baggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Mel (Amanda) Baggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m sorry to report the sad news that Mel (Amanda) Baggs died this past weekend.  One of the most essential &#8220;voices&#8221; in communicating how autistics &#8220;speak,&#8221; in expressing how response to and interaction with sensory experience and patterns is a language of its own that so many of us simply do not notice or, worse, refuse to pay attention to, I have introduced my FSEM students to our topic with this video every time I&#8217;ve taught my Representations of Autism course for the past 12 years! (If you watch, there are no words for the 1st 3:15, at which point Baggs begins typing a &#8220;translation&#8221; with recourse to AAC [augmentative and alternative communication]).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnylM1hI2jc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Amanda Baggs&#8217;s video masterpiece, <em>In My Language<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry to report the sad news that Mel (Amanda) Baggs died this past weekend. One of the most essential &#8220;voices&#8221; in communicating how autistics &#8220;speak,&#8221; in expressing how response to and interaction with sensory experience and patterns is a language of its own that so many of us simply do not notice or, worse, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/death-of-mel-amanda-baggs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death of Mel (Amanda) Baggs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcJhts-vq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}