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Currently, educators lack longitudinal data measuring both the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of various educational interventions used with handicapped ...

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Lauren Spiro – March 28, 2023 This article is an invitation to open our perceptions to other approaches of supporting people through emotional crisis. Rather than pathologizing behavior we ca…

The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.

In 1968, just two years after the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California, the Party’s headquarters mandated that all chapters inaugurate “serve the people” programs. Community

Molly Toal, Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training…

Monotropism (a key feature of Autism) is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel.

1021 likes, 49 comments. “Kind of crazy that we are gerting trained in diagnosing without even learning what Monotropism is…”

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1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ pic.twitter.com/t47k4RiGRu— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) August 10, 2023

Injustice survives when "DEI-minded" people defend purely individualist solutions. I say, "#Antibias training alone can't eliminate institutional #racism";…

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This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach. Based on Dr Amitta Shah's

Doherty, McCowan and Shaw (2023) The authors have developed a simple framework which may facilitate equitable clinical services at all points of access and care, using the acronym ‘SPACE’. This encompasses five core autistic needs: Sensory needs, Predictability, Acceptance, Communication and Empath

The theory of monotropism was developed by Dr Dinah Murray, Dr Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser (2005) in their article, Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism. Monotropic people focus more attention and energy resources on a more limited number of channels of interest than non-

Note from Adam: Sometime in the spring of 2012, I was discussing young adult fiction, dystopias, and the mayan apocalypse with novelist…

DIY, Cultural Fracking, The Chrome Of Yestermorrow, Cyberpunk, Solarpunk, Visions of the Future and the Anthropogreen at Unsound 2019

At its core, and despite its appropriation, Solarpunk imagines a radically different societal and economic structure.

Can the new Tumblr-grown aesthetic break through the smog to change the Twenty-First Century conversation?

One of the most curious facts about living as we do today is that our future does not, strictly speaking, exist. This fact has been well elaborated by Bruce Sterling over the past few years (“Atemporality for the Creative Artist” being especially good), and picked up on ably by Justin Pickard in the recent Gonzo Futurist manifesto. Our philosophy of history has more or less collapsed, we are confronted with dizzying arrays of signals strong and weak, fair and foul.