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My latest blog for the LSE blog site about how talking up truancy is just another way of punishing neurodivergent children. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… @AFNCCF Sally Weale

We need another 85 school professionals to complete our survey Important coproduced study - a joy to colead with Jane Hurry from UCL Institute of Education kindly share Dr Jo Billington Prof Vivian Hill 💙 Dr. Zachary Walker CRAE AT-Autism @AFNCCF sarah o'brien YoungMinds Autism Practice

Pinning down ‘profound autism’ for reliable research: Q&A with Matthew Siegel | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pinni…

Am I reading this article correctly, that profound autism will now be "defined as needing support with activities of daily living", which is right back to where we started by focusing on support needs?? thetransmitter.org/spectrum/pinni…

Not finding evidence that more intervention (higher intensity, duration, total amount) of any kind is better for young autistic children jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… meta-analysis including NDBIs, behavioral interventions, developmental interventions, technology-based interventions

ABA in 2024: behavior analysts use a lot of punishment, for hand mouthing in a young autistic child link.springer.com/article/10.100… e.g. RIRD, finding mittens aversive to the child & forcing her to wear them, response blocking, threat of punishment (presence of mittens "never faded") etc

"In hospital or daily life contexts, studies essentially showed idiosyncratic expressions, hypervigilance, motor agitation, negative emotional reactions or vocalizations." Pain is often expressed atypically by individuals with #autism. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38971646/ via Paul Whiteley

This is one of the finest talks on #ADHD, Self Regulation and Executive Function. Listen to it! ADHD, Self Regulation and Executive Functioning - Dr Russell Barkley youtu.be/QyN0v4aRF3Y?si… via YouTube

Friendly reminder that armchair diagnoses of public figures are unethical and a form of pseudoscience. They also exhibit a fundamental misunderstanding of the diagnostic process, its complexity and nuance, and the core role of differential diagnosis.

Just in case anyone was optimistic that views on children not attending school were changing take a look at this socially illiterate, tone deaf headline in the Sunday Times. Disgraceful.

New paper on sensory processing differences in autistic & non-autistic ppl in middle age+. Sensory issues were more common in autistic ppl, especially autistic women. For autistics they related to worse mental health, and more often than in non-autistic ppl intensified over time.

How does ABA get away with constant violations of autistic children's bodily and other autonomy? Forced play, hugs and tickles from a stranger. Of course there is parental consent, but where is the consent from the child? Now imagine doing something like this with adults.

People will be shocked to hear that 40% of parent carers have thought about killing themselves. This is a result of battling constantly with a system that has little interest in supporting them or their disabled children. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/more… via Uni of Birmingham

"Autistic and non-autistic adolescents report similar overall empathy levels" but "parents of autistic adolescents perceived them as having overall lower levels of empathy" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/au… "findings do not support previous views of autistic people as having less empathy"