Elaine Mcgreevy
@ElaineMcgreevy
Speech and language therapist, passionate about supporting autistic people. #Neurodiversity. Monotropic. On a journey of self-discovery.
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http://www.accesscommunication.org.uk 09-02-2015 23:00:29
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'Struggling with self-acceptance is a vulnerability we autistics would often prefer to hide. Personally, I used to dismiss any and all compliments. If someone praised me, I would close up emotionally and not express acknowledgment or thanks.' New at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2024/04/accept…
Join my upcoming online talk 'Colonialingualism and the pervasive practices of inequitable multilingualism' for Andrea MacLeod's Social Justice and Multilingualism Research series.
🗓 May 9, 2024
🕰 1:30 - 2:30pm EDT
Register ➡️eventbrite.com/e/dr-paul-meig…
Thank you for the invite!
Hope to see the thousands of NHS staff trained making sustainable positive changes the lives of thousands of autistic people. We can all be the change we need to see and #NATPmentalhealth helps a lot! Funded by NHS England Workforce, Training and Education
Join the conference open to all: annafreud.org/training/healt…
We asking people to post using #CAMHSDontCareIfAutisticKidsDie
Strong words, I hope this article will help you understand why
emergentdivergence.com/2024/04/12/cam…
Autistic adults tend to see autistic stimming 'as an adaptive mechanism that helps them to soothe or communicate intense emotions or thoughts, & thus objected to treatment that aims to eliminate the behaviour.' Research says so! From Steven Kapp et al.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30818970/
Excellent talks at the ROLE symposium by Kamran Khan on native speaker ideologies in citizenship and Vijay Ramjattan on accent ideologies. Thank you organisers for creating this space!
Thanks and plaudits to Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 for writing another neurodivergent-affirming and anti-ableist book.
' 'Maybe it's because they want to send us away' Bonnie finally says quietly.'
It's so important to use the word -- disability is not a dirty word.
Marcus Hanlin was 57 when he died. I spoke to his mum Anna 'This is an appalling event that has happened in a context. People and things happen, behind those people and things is context, back and back' georgejulian.co.uk/2024/04/12/mar…
I'll be at his inquest on Monday #LearningDisability