Anna Quon

Abstract Autism manifests in various progressive, fluctuating, or static differences that may be disabling. This requires healthcare staff to provide individualized, culturally competent care for autistic people (AP). However, staff are underprepared since disability curricula are not universally implemented, which may exacerbate health disparities for AP. The Alliance for Disability in Health Care Education (ADHCE) delineated staff competencies to address disparities.

Virtual poetry open mics offered writer and artist Anna Quon and opportunity to travel throughout the pandemic. (Anna Quon for CBC) Planning a trip used to make me tingle. But for the past year and a half, many of us have only dreamed of travel. However, thanks to the internet, you might have had the pleasure of "going" to a concert live streamed from Ireland, attending a Russian ballet, or sharing a drone's-eye view of the Canadian North.

I wish laughter were the last thing to go but it goes before hearing, before thought, before breath, this bubbling thing, this spasm, this wriggling fish, half muscle, half air, that flops out of us, with a hook in its flesh.