Feeling very happy to be able to share this systematic review on neurodivergence and grief from my PhD 😊 with Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith Dr Emy Nimbley
Dr Karen Goodall
and Doug McConachie
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

If a WOMAN in TEXAS has an ABORTION, she can be charged with MURDER. But if a MAN tries to kill that same baby, he gets 6 months in jail👇👇

Texas attorney who poisoned pregnant wife with abortion medication gets 180 days in jail.

#ItWasNeverAboutBabies

news.yahoo.com/texas-attorney…

🔗 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…

“Some had their disability aids removed by photographers. Other children have been altered with editing software or banned from their class photos entirely.”

I expose how the “erased disabled kids” scandal was not a one-off - and what it says about us. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

When your slight Twitter rantings about viewing ARFID solely through an eating disorder lens convert into a commentary paper 🤣 thanks to co-authors Emma 💙 Dr Emy Nimbley Helen Sharpe Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith Andrew and Kyle. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

An affirming shout-out to autistic people as we enter the 'Autism Bewareness Month'. Look after yourselves.
Our reminder of the importance of autistic community symbols, not puzzle pieces or the colour blue/ 'light it up blue' campaigns.
Proper inclusion pls, not 'awareness'.

❗️ Research opportunity ❗️

If you are:
✅over 16
✅live in England
✅ have lived experience of eating disorders, disordered eating or body image concerns

We would love to hear your views about calories on menus in our online survey: tinyurl.com/yt6xjzx5

RTs appreciated!

Happy to share the first empirical paper from my PhD thesis in collab with Angus MacBeth and Dr Karri Gillespie-Smith - a cluster analysis of risk and protective factors for maternal smartphone use and mother-infant responsiveness

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/im…

#PerinatalMentalHealth #Smartphones

This looks a fantastic event! Might be one you’d like to attend Georgia Wright

My systematic review and meta-analysis about sensory processing in the context of eating disorders has now been published.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

With great excitement, I am sharing with you Farradeh, Krysia Waldock @[email protected] and my new paper published. We have investigated perspectives regarding language about being autistic, regarding themselves and functioning. We also looked at community connectedness. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

On Tuesday March 19th at 3 to 5 pm ET, Dr Dora Raymaker will be presenting a talk to Autism Institute titled 'Leveraging the Power of Autistic Expertise & Systems Thinking in Employment Services Research'. You can register for the event here: drexel.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek , We wanted to celebrate our peer researcher Ellen Maloney (she/her), We were going to say we feel super lucky to have a formal peer researcher embedded in EDAC (which is true!) but we also just want to celebrate ellen for the 🌟 she is and the skills she brings 👏

Happy to be part of a progressive team of researchers, module coordinators, tutors, & supervisors MSc Psychology and Learning Disability. Students can live anywhere; location does not affect cost. It's part-time; students can work alongside it. There are options for independent study/catchup & live sessions.

I’m giving a brief talk tomorrow to the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities tomorrow as part of #NDCelebrationWeek

ND is a topic I’m incredibly passionate about and these weeks offer a chance to shine a light on how ND peeps can best be supported.

Autism & anxiety linked to ⬆️ camouflaging: ⬇️ mental health: 'adolescents who self-reported greater levels of autistic traits, anxiety [and who agreed on high levels of these w/ their caregivers] and depression symptoms compared w/ their caregivers reported greater camouflaging'

Interested in doing a #PhD on #Aural #Diversity ? University of Salford and Goldsmiths, University of London have got six #PhD position fully funded by the The Leverhulme Trust, which we are now recruiting for.

Join this webinar 1pm on Thurs 21st March to find out more hub.salford.ac.uk/sirc-acoustics…

An absolutely badass addition to my hall of fame of disability campaigns from @CoorDown for #WorldDownSyndromeDay .

And the woman in the video is @MadisonTevlin. 🦾💋

Have you worked a person with Down Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome or Williams Syndrome?
Are you a practitioner (clinicians, doctors, nurses, SLTs, teachers, TA, OTs, EP) or researcher?
Please complete our priority setting survey (deadline 17/03!)
surreyfahs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B…
Emily Farran @[email protected]

At secondary #school I stopped going to the dining hall at lunchtime.
This was assumed to be an #eating problem but it was actually a noise, overcrowding and smell problem, with added stress from social demands.
We need to fix #environments and expectations, not #Autistic people.