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Erin ‘Folletto’ Casali Erin Casali, known as “Folletto”, is a senior product design director and coach. She has a hybrid background in design, psychology, business and technology — with a people-centered approach. Over the years she built products and helped businesses transform by trusting people and giving them agency and by clarifying goals, with a

In this research, we take a neurodiversity-informed approach to understanding autistic play. This means understanding autistic play in terms of differences, strengths and difficulties rather than simply deficits. We also focus on what autistic people say about their play. We were interested in how autistic adults experience play, as well as how they think their play is different to non-autistic play.

Autistic and non-autistic observers form less favorable impressions of autistic adults relative to non-autistic adults, yet only non-autistic adults report lowe...

Autistic kids who experience burnout will need understanding, flexibility, increased sensory regulation time, and a decrease in demands.

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Despite stereotypes, many autistic people yearn for meaningful relationships, but they are daunted by neurotypicals’ assumptions about them

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Belonging in School - a school-level resource for developing inclusive policies

20/20 Captioning provides CART and remote CART services to the deaf and hard of hearing. We work with secondary and post secondary colleges and universities, corporations and businesses around the world to provide access to the spoken word to the deaf and hard of hearing.

The takeover of Houston ISD sits at the intersection of so many issues impacting American education today: democratic backsliding and the rise of authoritarianism; the so-called “parents’ rights movement”; testing and accountability measures; poverty, racism, and charter schools; We would be wise to understand what’s happening in Houston as a canary-in-the-coal-mine. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.

It’s hard loving something that doesn’t love you back. Or, to be more specific, it’s hard loving something that only loves you when you’re in pain.

Monotropism is a theory of autism which was first developed by autistics Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson. Dinah and Wenn independently formulated the key ideas of monotropism, then later worked together for years developing, explaining and applying the theory. Their work has helped people to make sense of autism and how it manifests in themselves and others. There is an…

To drive value, high performing cognitively diverse teams must tap into each other's strengths by working collaboratively. It's easier said than done.

Autistic burnout is an incredibly difficult experience where your brain is in overdrive and you always feel stressed

I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can't "see" my father's face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on 10 minutes ago. I'm 30 years old, and I never knew a human could do any of this.

People with disabilities risk losing their life-sustaining health benefits if they get married, a penalty advocates say is rooted in old beliefs about their lives.

Camouflaging involves hiding one's autistic characteristics in social situations. This mixed methods systematic review synthesized research on psychos…

Camouflaging, or the use of strategies by autistic people to minimize the visibility of their autistic traits in social situations, is associated with…

Elon Musk has Asperger’s. So what?

This summer, industrial scale batteries have helped boost the energy supply during critical evening hours. Battery storage represents a small fraction of Texas’ energy mix now, but it’s expected to r…

CEOs have become number-crunching automatons with no vision. They should replaced with AI that would be more effective and drive company success.

Neurodivergent and otherwise marginalised people often have specific communication preferences and, in some cases are only able to communicate in one or two specific modalities. In this research pr…