Saturday, 24 February 2024

Codes of Conduct, Disability and Neurodivergence - How to Get it Right

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  Good Codes of Conduct are a useful thing for so many places.  Well worded, collaborative, sensible and kind, they can add so much to the n...
Monday, 22 January 2024

Why is Brand New ABA still relying on evidence from these methods?

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  On social media, I am often told that Applied Behaviour Analysis is now kind, ethical, considers potential harms, and seeks consent or ass...
Friday, 8 December 2023

Time to move on from last century? How to reframe diagnostic criteria for autism?

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  The first autism research was arguably carried out nearly 100 years ago, by Grunya Sukhareva (1926).  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...
Monday, 31 July 2023

When almost all movement or sound is called 'Challenging Behaviour' if you're autistic

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  In some of my roles for organisations, I'm commissioned to review research papers about autistic people. Some of the findings are star...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

"I don't like your tone"

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  Decades of life as an autistic person, living amongst hundreds of other lovely autistic people, has given me some insights.  One of these ...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

Autistic Distress: Shutdown, Meltdown, Media and Public Knowledge

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  Too many autistic people are asked to live unbearable lives. Now deafened and blinded by sensory overwhelm in the world, so many are force...
Saturday, 4 February 2023

Who Are Autism Conferences For?

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  In a recent autism news article, an academic is reported to have said that autism researchers at a conference were very relieved that few ...