{"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\u2019m sorry to report the sad news that Mel (Amanda) Baggs died this past weekend.  One of the most essential \u201cvoices\u201d in communicating how autistics \u201cspeak,\u201d 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\u2019ve 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 \u201ctranslation\u201d 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&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&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\u2019s 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\u2019m sorry to report the sad news that Mel (Amanda) Baggs died this past weekend. One of the most essential \u201cvoices\u201d in communicating how autistics \u201cspeak,\u201d 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_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_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcJhts-vq","_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}]}}