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Host Cathy Hannabach interviews disability media studies scholar Meryl Alper about the digital lives of diverse young people on the autism spectrum.

There’s a dangerous pattern I see repeated every time someone attacks the neurodivergent community — especially when politicians or media personalities suggest that vaccines, stress or toxins “cause”…

New research reveals that individuals with autism express emotions using the same facial muscles as neurotypical individuals, but at intensities too subtle for the human eye to detect.

A culturally-centred framework for strengths-based practice

Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from our collections.

These findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

Autistic people share their experiences of distraction.

This article examines the lived experiences of ADHDers with respect to time perception, through the lens of a neuroqueer temporality framework and its representation in graphic medicine. By close-reading autobiographical comics digitally posted by Pina Varnel (ADHD Alien), Dani Donovan, Heidi Burton …

Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment

In recent years a lot more people have been identifying as neurodivergent.

Everyone has something to say. Working closely with the AAC community, we build apps and share best practice to help you communicate with the world.

Most autistic adolescents experience anxiety. Interoception, defined as one’s ability to detect and interpret bodily signals, might contribute to this. The aim ...

I want to talk about three key theories developed by autistic people, all of which are really about people in general, but which are all needed by anyone who hopes to understand Autistic people in…

Time to Level Up. 

Informed, voluntary, ongoing consent is a central tenet of ethical research. However, consent processes are prone to exclusionary practices and inaccessibility. Consent materials are often too long and complex to foster understanding and ensure that people make truly informed decisions to participate in research. While this complexity is problematic for all people, these challenges are compounded for autistic people and people with intellectual disability. Consent materials and procedures rarely incorporate accommodations for processing and communication differences common in autism and intellectual disability. Failure to provide such accommodations ultimately threatens the conduct of ethical research. We describe lessons learned across multiple major U.S. research institutions that improved informed consent materials and procedures, with the goal of fostering responsible inclusion in research for autistic people and people with intellectual disability. We used these alternative materials and procedures in multiple research projects with samples of autistic people and people with intellectual disability. Each contributing team partnered with university human research participant protections personnel, accessibility experts, community members, and researchers to develop rigorous procedures for improving the readability and accessibility of informed consent materials. We present guidelines for designing consent materials and procedures and assert that participatory methods are vital to the success of ongoing accessibility initiatives. Adoption of understandable consent materials and accessible consent procedures can cultivate more equitable, respectful, and inclusive human research practices. Future work should expand on this work to design inclusive practices for populations with additional considerations.

The Irish Examiner is a different and distinct voice in the Ireland’s national discourse, highlighting stories and perspectives not found elsewhere. We are extremely proud of our Cork and Munster roots but write about issues affecting all Irish people every day.

Australian Psychological Society on how to host events for neurodiverse attendees.

Jessica Winter writes about Linda McMahon, the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, and Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Education.

Thanks to Mike Small for the cross-post from his Substack . Mike is editor of Bella Caledonia, who are running this fund-raiser - please support. In October 2017 the writer Robert McFarlane and the artist Jackie Morris produced ‘Lost Words’ - a ‘book of spells’ to conjure back into existenc

OpenResearch is a nonprofit research lab that seeks to answer open-ended questions.

The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States

SXSW 2025 Schedule | How can cash in hand transform the lives of low-income Americans? This panel dives deep into the data, exploring the tangible and intangible impacts of cash assistance and how these insights can revolutionize our approach to vital social safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP—especially at a time when these programs face critical challenges. We'll examine how guaranteed income creates a ripple effect, touching everything from socioeconomic stability and family choices to employment prospe...

Since Artist-Organizer Kevin Gotkin joined CRNY in 2022, they have been working on a range of projects that help us understand and support the lives and livelihoods of Deaf and disabled artists.