Please considering taking part in my autistic student (& teacher) Bethan Hughes's MSc thesis comparing autistic & non-autistic teachers' teaching styles. Message her Bethan if interested & scroll⬇️to see her message. Dr Becky Wood Laura Crane Prof Francesca Happé @DrRuthMoyse RT 🙏

📢My student Rebecca Jarvis Rebs Jarvis is interviewing autistic women about their experiences in secondary school: special educational or mainstream education (now globally with advert w/ alt-text 👇). Please email Rebecca if potentially interested: [email protected]

"18 new studies published from 2017 to 2022, reflecting increased research interest in PTSD in autistic populations. ..suggests..autistic adults & children experience more severe PTSD symptoms compared to their non-autistic peers, with at least comparable rates of occurrence."

Complex trauma, poverty or other disadvantage may have screwed up y/our formal education but you've probably got better anticipatory intelligence than nearly anyone else in the room.

Bethan Hughes Bethan (quoted below w/ permission) is still recruiting for a study comparing (current or former) autistic & non-autistic teachers' teaching philosophies. It is interview-based (video or text chat). Contact [email protected] for more info/to participate.

🔗 This #AutismAcceptanceWeek we (Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻‍♀️ TheAutisticAdvocate Sarah Douglas Dr Felicity Sedgewick are thrilled to launch our Autistic Guide to Healthy Relationships, as part of our work on autistic experiences of intimate partner violence, funded by the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

crying is a bad choice apparently 😂😂???

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I am looking for autistic young people to take part in an interview for my PhD. I want to learn more about the reality of inclusion in mainstream secondary schools for autistic young people.

Non-autistic "participants found it significantly harder to track autistic narrators’ emotions compared to non-autistic narrator’s emotions, esp. when viewing clips of narrators feeling happy and sad...findings support the double empathy problem". Free 👇: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Autistic university students in the UK, Emine Gurbuz (she/her), Lauren Marsh, Beatriz Lopez and I partnered w/ autistic students University of Portsmouth Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN to create a questionnaire on your support experiences at uni👇Please RT @UoP_Media UoP Faculty of Science & Health @uop_psychology UoP PsychSoc

We'd like to speak to autistic young people and parents about anxiety and depression. We want to better understand why many autistic young people have anxiety and depresion and how to help. Let us know if you're interested and/or please pass on to others. RTs gratefully received!

📢Hey fellow autistic people! We're particularly keen to hear from: - Autistic men - Autistic people of any gender who are part of a racialised minority (e.g. Black autistic people). durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Q…

Scousers are not letting the far-right touch the Mosque in Liverpool.

Liverpool now, ordinary British people protecting Abdullah Quilliam Mosque.

New Centre for Interaction, Development and Diversity paper by Beth Fearon from her @UoP_PaLD MSc supervised by our own Steven Kapp with Amy Pearson of Durham_NeuroDev "Exploring the social emotional impact of puberty and adolescence on autistic people assigned female at birth". Free for now from Autism In Adulthood👇

New paper by my supervisee Beth Fearon from her @UoP_PaLD MSc thesis on the social and emotional impacts of puberty and adolescence on autistic people assigned female at birth, with Amy Pearson, a great collaborator for dealing with sensitive issues of victimisation & beyond.

Very happy to announce our paper has been published 🤩🎉