Late grandpa Raghavan and grandma Pushpa got invited to.meet the queen on her yacht. then also got a card from her 35 years later.
Grandparents and the Queen
Grandparents and the Queen
Late grandpa Raghavan and grandma Pushpa got invited to.meet the queen on her yacht. then also got a card from her 35 years later.
Late grandpa Raghavan and grandma Pushpa got invited to.meet the queen on her yacht. then also got a card from her 35 years later.
This time last year
Attending at Cal football game at Memorial Stadium.
Have to get around to attending games at new school. Still adjusting and figuring my way around. Takes time, Autism and transitions are the not the best of bedfellows.
Environment and Autism
Number 13
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/09/12/2023usnewsbestcolleges/
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges
They Can and They Will
On my facebook feed
Well said Paul - "... have a child or young adult with autism -ANYTHING is possible! Don’t let any teacher , family member “ friend” or anyone say your child can “ never” do x y or z . They can , and they will."
How Two Mischievous Deer and a Fawn took over a backyard!
(a humorous skit on the backyard deer seen in from my Nashville home)
How Two Mischievous Deer and a Fawn took over a backyard!
One sunny afternoon, two majestic deer with large antlers, Antler McDeerface and Staggy McStagface, stepped out of the woods to grub on some clover grass in somebody's backyard.
Simple Beginnings
Got my own personalized Labcoat at the Simple Beginnings Ceremony today for incoming PhD students.
The term Simple Beginnings is taken from the end of Darwin's epic work as he has had such an impact on scientific thinking in the last 150 years.
This labcoat is so beyond cool. A labcoat for me symbolizes access to mainstream education.
Grad school is intense which super exciting and metaphorical fingers crossed I can succeed and get to do meaningful, ethical and impactful research (metaphorical as fingers crossed is not an easy motor-planning movement for me)
Image 1: Program head Dr Bruce Carter at podium announcing each student and their research interests. Kate Stuart, (Director of strategic affairs and events with Biomedical Research Education and Training) putting on my personalized lab coat. putting on my personalized lab coat. Audience and other students lined up in foreground.
Image 2/3. Sitting in audience before/after I got lab coat. Close up.of labcoat with my name embroidered. Other side of coat says Vanderbilt school.of medicine.
The term Simple Beginnings is taken from the end of Darwin's epic work as he has had such an impact on scientific thinking in the last 150 years.
This labcoat is so beyond cool. A labcoat for me symbolizes access to mainstream education.
Grad school is intense which super exciting and metaphorical fingers crossed I can succeed and get to do meaningful, ethical and impactful research (metaphorical as fingers crossed is not an easy motor-planning movement for me)
Image 1: Program head Dr Bruce Carter at podium announcing each student and their research interests. Kate Stuart, (Director of strategic affairs and events with Biomedical Research Education and Training) putting on my personalized lab coat. putting on my personalized lab coat. Audience and other students lined up in foreground.
Image 2/3. Sitting in audience before/after I got lab coat. Close up.of labcoat with my name embroidered. Other side of coat says Vanderbilt school.of medicine.
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DREDF Spotlight
This month is Disability Rights. Thrilled to be on the same board with the likes of living disability legends like Judy Heumann. What an honor to be invited.
https://mailchi.mp/dredf/dredf-monthly-august-22
Hari Srinivasan joins the DREDF Board of Directors.
Hari Srinivasan just moved from Berkeley to Nashville, but we're lucky that he's staying connected to Berkeley by joining DREDF's Board of Directors. Hari has autism and ADHD with very limited speech ability, and primarily uses Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) to communicate. He is a Ph.D. Neuroscience student at Vanderbilt University, a PD Soros Fellow, and a Fellow at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation. Hari graduated from UC Berkeley in 2022 as a University Medal Finalist, along with a Departmental Citation Award, Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, and Psi Chi. As an undergraduate Haas Scholar, he carried out a year-long independent funded research on awe and empathy in autism. He also served as student president of the Berkeley campus organization Autism: Spectrum at Cal, stressing the idea of autism needing to go beyond mere Awareness, Acceptance, and Inclusion and towards Belonging. Hari's other affiliations include serving on the board of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, and as a Non Federal Committee member of the Interagency Coordinating Committee (IACC). He is also a member of the Council of Autistic Advisors for the Autism Society of America and sits on the Community Advisory Board for The Brain Foundation.
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