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The yet-unfinished story of life with our son Charlie, who is autistic and has intellectual disabilities, and teaching classical Greek + Latin + Classics in an age of remote learning | by Kristina Chew
Once Upon a Time, I Tried to Recover My Son From Autism

Once Upon a Time, I Tried to Recover My Son From Autism

03 January 2009

(Originally published 3 January 2009, 11:16:00 UTV, at Change.org) It seems that our list of autism controversies is proving to be, well, controversial and, in... Read more →


Posted at 17:28 in Diagnosis, Motherhood, Weblogs | Permalink | Comments (0)

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The Vaxxed and the Unvaxxed, Take 2

The Vaxxed and the Unvaxxed, Take 2

30 July 2021

People in Missouri are wearing disguises to get a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the New York Times. Charlie got his second Pfizer vaccine in February... Read more →


Posted at 23:30 in California, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, Vaccines | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

24 July 2021

I remember "Dr. Mercola" who is, this late July Saturday morning in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and Charlie's work program in continued... Read more →


Posted at 12:08 in Politics & Advocacy, Science | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Too Good To Be True

Too Good To Be True

05 October 2020

I wasn’t paying attention to all the controversy about the New Sappho fragments because, back in January of 2012, I had a lot else going... Read more →


Posted at 00:21 in Classics, Greek, Legal, Politics & Advocacy | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Comparatively Speaking, and Teaching

Comparatively Speaking, and Teaching

25 September 2020

On and off, or maybe a little more than that, I have questioned my youthful decision to study Comparative Literature for my doctorate rather than... Read more →


Posted at 22:11 in Classics, My Teaching/Job, Writing | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Did It Again

Did It Again

24 September 2020

My thought was we would do what we did last time, get through about half the puzzle and call it a day. Charlie's day program... Read more →


Posted at 14:39 in Daily Life, Games, Ocean | Permalink | Comments (0)

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10 Years Ago

10 Years Ago

13 September 2020

I used often to link this post on writing about difficult things aka It’s the End of the World as We Know It and have... Read more →


Posted at 12:53 in Adulthood, Daily Life, My Teaching/Job, Writing | Permalink | Comments (0)

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500

500

08 September 2020


Posted at 23:08 in Games | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Teaching remotely? Six Things to Keep In Mind

Teaching remotely? Six Things to Keep In Mind

03 September 2020

1) Before you start teaching online and as you prepare to do so, consider: What was the best online interaction you have had, one that... Read more →


Posted at 20:59 in My Teaching/Job | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato (2)

Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato (2)

31 August 2020

Plato’s critique of writing in his dialogue Phaedrus is my admittedly unlikely starting point for a how-to guide about how to teach online. This dialogue... Read more →


Posted at 21:53 in Greek, My Teaching/Job, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato

Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato

26 August 2020

The whole world is learning remotely now and a lot of us are not happy about it. Meeting students via Zoom is not even a... Read more →


Posted at 15:45 in My Teaching/Job, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: covid-19, online teaching, pandemic, remote teaching

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“You love the impossible”

“You love the impossible”

04 January 2020

Slides to accompany “You love the impossible: Antigone, Dictee, and the Asian American reception of classical literature”, on Sophocles’ tragedy and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s... Read more →


Posted at 05:00 in Classics | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Back On the Road

Back On the Road

21 February 2017

Remember how I went to every private autism school in New Jersey and a few more to spare and we moved in with Jim's parents... Read more →


Posted at 14:09 in Adulthood, Education/School, NJ/NY | Permalink | Comments (3)

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New Testament Greek (Rutgers, Summer 2017)

New Testament Greek (Rutgers, Summer 2017)

12 February 2017


Posted at 01:00 in Classics, Greek, My Teaching/Job | Permalink | Comments (0)

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Fiver

Fiver

02 January 2017

First, Charlie finished out the last days of his teenage-year decade and opened up the one he'll spend his twenties in with a solid 18... Read more →


Posted at 20:04 in Adulthood, Bike, Holidays, Horses, Poetry, Virgil | Permalink | Comments (1)

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Obamacare in the Age of President Trump

Obamacare in the Age of President Trump

14 November 2016

I used to be a blogger and occasionally the spirit arises in me, for instance when writing up this week's discussion forum assignment for my... Read more →


Posted at 10:57 in Insurance, Politics & Advocacy | Permalink | Comments (0)

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I'm Not Politically Minded But

I'm Not Politically Minded But

17 October 2016

Just ask Jim: I am not politically minded and grateful he watches the election coverage (Presidential debates, Vice-Presidential debates, post-debate-analysis etc.) routinely and with a... Read more →


Posted at 22:06 in Classics, NJ/NY, Politics & Advocacy | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: Bridgegate, Chris Christie, New Jersey, politics

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On Seeds

On Seeds

24 August 2016

~Charlie enjoying a not-made-by-me lunch.~ It's been 15 or so years that I have been making and packing lunch for Charlie to eat at school.... Read more →


Posted at 17:02 in Education/School, Food and Drink, Motherhood | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: fruit, lunch, seeds, watermelon

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On the cusp of Charlie entering 14th Grade

On the cusp of Charlie entering 14th Grade

04 August 2016

Long story, but I would never have been able to put together the above without -- you guessed it -- 19 long and good years... Read more →


Posted at 19:45 in Classics, Education/School, My Teaching/Job | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: classics, education, teachers, teaching

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Further, Probably Unnecessary, Proof That I am Short

Further, Probably Unnecessary, Proof That I am Short

22 June 2016

In looking over the most recent photos of Charlie as of those from his school's annual prom, and even though I have witnessed his steady... Read more →


Posted at 17:57 in Growing Up, Money | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: height, motherhood, tall boy

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Match! Redux

Match! Redux

12 June 2016

Match! redux. Go Bucs. Read more →


Posted at 17:48 in Autism Dad, Bike, Exercise & Sports | Permalink | Comments (0)

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About

Kristina Chew

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Poetry & Translations

  • Catullus
  • 2 poems on Berfrois
  • Virgil: Eclogues 5, 9
  • Theocritus: Idylls (in progress)
  • Virgil: Georgics

    Virgil: Georgics

Tweets by @autismvox

Essays, Articles, Chapters

  • Teaching Classics and/as Disability Advocacy (Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, August 2015)

  • A Classicist Goes to Work in Silicon Valley (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 12, 2014)

  • Charlie in Autismland: A Lesson in Parenthood (Everyday Health, April 2, 2014)

  • Proteus in Chains: Review of Oral Tradition & the Internet by John Miles Foley (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.01.41)
  • : "Autism & the Task of the Translator" in Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference

    "Autism & the Task of the Translator" in Worlds of Autism: Across the Spectrum of Neurological Difference

  • My autistic child receives great social services. Adulthood is another story (Guardian, 29 November 2013)

  • For new university students, Jerry Garcia has always been dead (Guardian, 20 August 2013)

  • Are They Going To Take My Child Away? (Guardian, 6 July 2013)

  • A teacher's graduation wish: remember the value of face-to-face interaction (Guardian, 12 May 2013)

  • Abortion and Disability (Guardian, 22 April 2013)

  • Is Lent becoming too commercialised? (Guardian, 20 March 2013)

  • Odysseus and "The Fools": Applying Concepts of Neurodiversity to the Ancient World in Ethics and Neurodiversity (2013)

  • Do We Really Need a Cure For Autism? (Guardian, 22 February 2013)

  • Review of Lattimore's Iliad (Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.10.04)

  • The Disabled Speech of Asian Americans (Disability Studies Quarterly 2010)

  • What Does E Pluribus Unum Mean?: Reading the Classics and Multicultural Literature Together
  • : "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha" in Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Mary Reichardt

    "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha" in Catholic Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, ed. Mary Reichardt

  • : "Special Education 101," Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (ed. Shannon Des Roches Rosa, et al.)

    "Special Education 101," Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (ed. Shannon Des Roches Rosa, et al.)

  • : "The Wages of Autism," Gravity Pulls You in: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum

    "The Wages of Autism," Gravity Pulls You in: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum

  • : "Fractioned Idiom: Poetry and the Language of Autism," Autism and Representation

    "Fractioned Idiom: Poetry and the Language of Autism," Autism and Representation

  • : "Grass in the Wind," Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children on the Autism Spectrum

    "Grass in the Wind," Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children on the Autism Spectrum

Books & Essays by James T. Fisher

  • : On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)

    On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America)

  • : "No Search, No Subject? Autism and the American Conversion Narrative," Autism and Representation

    "No Search, No Subject? Autism and the American Conversion Narrative," Autism and Representation

  • : Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America Updated Edition (Religion in American Life)

    Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America Updated Edition (Religion in American Life)

  • : Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (South Atlantic Quarterly)

    Catholic Lives, Contemporary America (South Atlantic Quarterly)

  • : Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

    Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

  • Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-62 (Studies in Religion)

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  • Comparatively Speaking, and Teaching
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  • 500
  • Teaching remotely? Six Things to Keep In Mind
  • Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato (2)
  • Everything I Know About Remote Teaching I Learned from Charlie and Plato

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