Supporting child and caregiver mental health is vital❕ Check out this #mentalhealth resource for patients & families who may having a hard time right now #MedTwitter #Pediatrics @lrlipton Arielle Spellun, MD @MCalabreseDO Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics @DrKorb

Check out our latest in NEJM. “clinicians and researchers must reevaluate the lens through which they view people with disabilities and prioritize their inclusion in research.” Jennifer Anne Deal @JHUDisability nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thanks to Twitter algorithm I just learned about this incredible organization Little Lobbyists and had to share. Amazing work, everybody should check it out! littlelobbyists.org

Thank you for these great resources!

There will be a new VaxAbilities COVID vaccination event at the Museum of Science with supports for people with disabilities or sensory support needs.  Free parking & free admission to the Museum is available.  Appointments available on VaxAbilities.com.

Incredible by work by Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic providing comprehensive #LGBTQIA #mentalhealth care and interdisciplinary #MedEd Way to go! Hopefully model can be replicated everywhere! #MedTwitter rdcu.be/cFYHA

🌈Gender diversity is common in children and adolescents with #autism or #Neurodiversity Best practices for providers include adapting traditional methods to help individuals communicate their identity #medtwitter #MedEd #pediatrics Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

Excited to share our interdisciplinary J Dev Behav Pediatr article from Boston Children's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program on language access and development for children with hearing differences 🧏🤟🦻 #SDBP #Deafhealth #medtwitter journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/pages/…

It’s the 45th anniversary of the 504 Sit-In. Demonstrations took place at federal buildings across the U.S. to demand that the Section 504 regulations be signed. I was at the HEW office in San Francisco, where we took over the building for a sit-in that lasted 26 days.

Happy 32nd anniversary to the ADA!

Excited to share our work on educating pediatric trainees on caring for children who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing to hopefully improve language access during early development! Thanks to @TheBCRP Center for Deaf Health Equity for supporting us! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

❎Children with #autism are more likely to be involuntarily physically or chemically restrained during hospitalization than children without ASD @MCalabreseDO Urgent work is needed to modify the hospital environment for our patients #sdbp2022 #pediatrics #MedTwitter Society for Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics

New paper! “Learning a Sign Language does not Hinder Acquisition of a Spoken Language.” This study provides evidence that families with deaf children can pursue ASL without concern of negative impact on spoken English development. 🧵 pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/20…

So excited to see this work and hopefully bring it into clinical practice for how we care for children with hearing differences in the medical community! Bravo!

New RCAP study conducted a cross-sectional analysis comparing #BASC-3 PRS T scores across 3 groups matched for age and sex. Findings add to the literature on ASD and DHH children and call for further exploration of the BASC-3. Read it here! link.springer.com/article/10.100… Arielle Spellun, MD

We are amending our OCR complaint, thanks to the help of many community members, educators, advocates & ACLU's Disability Rights Program. Read the full update here: buff.ly/3uzYZHt

Really powerful video about Language Deprivation. Thank you Marie Coppola - Disability is Diversity for sharing and Wyatte. We DO know how to prevent language deprivation! Clinicians can and must do better to get this information to parents and families for early access to ASL and language!

Thanks Sara Nović for your article. Must read for all scientists and doctors. Language deprivation, consent, representation, educational impacts must all be considered FIRST and not as an after thought in such research and its dissemination. #firstdonoharm inquirer.com/opinion/commen…

Early signed language exposure does not negatively impact spoken language processing in deaf CI users but may instead potentially offset negative effects of language deprivation without any signed language exposure experience prior to implantation. direct.mit.edu/nol/article/do…

Excited to share this article about what we've been up to at BMC! New Collaborative Targets Barriers to Care for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children healthcity.bmc.org/new-collaborat…