Vicki Haddix
@vickibostonslp.bsky.social
Clinical Associate Professor, SLP, AAC #AugComm #ATchat & UDL. #BskySpeechies Other interests: books (romance, mystery, nonfiction), travel, jazz, hockey, Memphis Grizzlies, wine, & cheese; she/her
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It is hard to describe just how much RFK Jr. and Trump have poisoned the way we talk about autism. It’s gotten so bad that a few months after I published this piece, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks denounced the CDC
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
Opinion | RFK Jr.'s latest anti-vaccine move will cause untold harm to autistic Americans
The Trump administration is working toward treating autism as something to be prevented, rather than building a health care system that helps people.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It is hard to describe just how much RFK Jr. and Trump have poisoned the way we talk about autism. It’s gotten so bad that a few months after I published this piece, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks denounced the CDC
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
www.ms.now/opinion/rfk-...
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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I think AI issues are manifesting in very different ways based on the kinds of institutions, the disciplines we're in, etc. But a lot seems tied together by the ways we've set up failure as something to be feared, utterly, and this was already a huge problem before the arrival of ChatGPT etc
"Students are afraid to fail, and AI presents itself as a saviour. But what we learn from history is that progress requires failure. It requires reflection. Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I think AI issues are manifesting in very different ways based on the kinds of institutions, the disciplines we're in, etc. But a lot seems tied together by the ways we've set up failure as something to be feared, utterly, and this was already a huge problem before the arrival of ChatGPT etc
One major work project is finished for now so I’ve had the brain space to read other nonfiction & this book from @thewaroncars.bsky.social people is high on my TBR. Bowie is (somewhat) patiently listening to me agree loudly as I read on this #Caturday. #ProofOfCat
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
One major work project is finished for now so I’ve had the brain space to read other nonfiction & this book from @thewaroncars.bsky.social people is high on my TBR. Bowie is (somewhat) patiently listening to me agree loudly as I read on this #Caturday. #ProofOfCat
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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This is so messed up. The vast majority of these are graduate degrees and some of them are doctorates.
November 21, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is so messed up. The vast majority of these are graduate degrees and some of them are doctorates.
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....
Developmental Language Disorder as a Multidimensional Neurodevelopmental Spectrum: Implications for Diagnosis
Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved
in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and ...
pubs.asha.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
JUST WHEN I THOUGHT TODAY COULDN'T GET ANY BETTER, 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES❗@karlamcgregor.bsky.social and co are 🔥on fire🔥 in @ashajournals.bsky.social in a 🆓🔓 article about #devlangdis and its spectral nature. This assertion will stay with me: "To diagnose is to categorize". pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10....
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“But Emily Merolli, a partner with the Sligo Law Group, and a former member of the department’s general counsel’s office, said the administration’s actions “are not legally supportable.””
www.the74million.org/article/whit...
www.the74million.org/article/whit...
White House Splinters Education Department, Sending K-12 Programs to Labor
One advocate said 'it will be difficult to put Humpty Dumpty back together again,' but another dismissed the move as a 'nothing burger.'
www.the74million.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“But Emily Merolli, a partner with the Sligo Law Group, and a former member of the department’s general counsel’s office, said the administration’s actions “are not legally supportable.””
www.the74million.org/article/whit...
www.the74million.org/article/whit...
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Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good.
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
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November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Alice Wong. i could literally teach an entire semester of philosophy of technology & disability through a lens of just her. You should all go spend time with her work. Her essays, podcasts, TV appearances, books, all of it; it is all so good.
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
Good night Alice. Rest in power, pending justice & peace
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"The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary"
~ Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Rest easy 🌸🌸🌸
~ Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Rest easy 🌸🌸🌸
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary"
~ Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Rest easy 🌸🌸🌸
~ Alice Wong, Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Rest easy 🌸🌸🌸
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
disabilityvisibilityproject.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
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Part 82 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Part 82 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd
Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
Wheelchair made for Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, 1740.
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In the @perkinsvision.bsky.social community and all around the #BlindNewWorld, the #WhiteCane ensures that people can be independent, confident and safe. 🧑🦯
Want to learn more? Check out 10 fascinating facts about #WhiteCanes ⬇️
Want to learn more? Check out 10 fascinating facts about #WhiteCanes ⬇️
10 fascinating facts about the white cane
Canes offer safety, confidence and independence - but here are 10 little-known facts about the iconic white cane that might surprise you.
Perkins.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In the @perkinsvision.bsky.social community and all around the #BlindNewWorld, the #WhiteCane ensures that people can be independent, confident and safe. 🧑🦯
Want to learn more? Check out 10 fascinating facts about #WhiteCanes ⬇️
Want to learn more? Check out 10 fascinating facts about #WhiteCanes ⬇️
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You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
You can disagree and argue as much as you like but the point of evaluating something scientifically is that not every statement should be given equal credence because evidence matters
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this is an extremely common and well understood surgery, obviously this was not a real number, but what the fuck
healthcare costs are an absurd kabuki theater between insurance and providers and no human being can possibly be expected to manage this shit
anyone who says otherwise is lying to you
healthcare costs are an absurd kabuki theater between insurance and providers and no human being can possibly be expected to manage this shit
anyone who says otherwise is lying to you
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
this is an extremely common and well understood surgery, obviously this was not a real number, but what the fuck
healthcare costs are an absurd kabuki theater between insurance and providers and no human being can possibly be expected to manage this shit
anyone who says otherwise is lying to you
healthcare costs are an absurd kabuki theater between insurance and providers and no human being can possibly be expected to manage this shit
anyone who says otherwise is lying to you
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read this as "enraged citizen" and it didn't even give me pause
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
read this as "enraged citizen" and it didn't even give me pause
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My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin:
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author.
Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Corgi is a free #UDL-based digital graphic organizer helping students think through complex science topics with clarity and support. Grateful to CAST authors Jenna W Gravel, Anne Marie Knokey, and Bryan Dean.
Read more: www.datiak12.io/teaching-lea...
Read more: www.datiak12.io/teaching-lea...
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Corgi is a free #UDL-based digital graphic organizer helping students think through complex science topics with clarity and support. Grateful to CAST authors Jenna W Gravel, Anne Marie Knokey, and Bryan Dean.
Read more: www.datiak12.io/teaching-lea...
Read more: www.datiak12.io/teaching-lea...
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extremely same
I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM
extremely same