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Abrome  is a Self-Directed Education (SDE) community in Austin, TX, that is now in its fourth year. As Facilitators (adult staff members), we regularly critique our approach to interacting with Learners and building community, as well as how the culture of Abrome is evolving. It was through

It’s easier than you think to make your classroom welcoming and accessible to students with autism and other diagnoses.

The actual effect of the myth of meritocracy, which is used to normalise and rationalise head to head competition, is a consistent bias to over-represent capabilities, and to actively avoid thinkin…

This report provides analysis about neurodivergence and neurodiversity for the national security community and steps to achieve neurodiverse inclusivity. The authors describe the benefits that people with neurodivergence bring to national security; challenges in recruiting, working with, and managing a neurodiverse workforce; and barriers in national security workplaces that prevent agencies from realizing the full benefits of neurodiversity.

The author describes his experiences with and without neurodiverse accommodations, recounting personal experiences in interviews, illustrating why neurodiverse accommodation is a must for neurodiverse hiring and interviewing.

Memory of methyl marks enables epigenetic inheritance down generations.

Eight weeks after the death of Karen Berg’s son, Henry, she’s fighting a flood of anti-transgender bills in the Kentucky Senate

Health service managers in south-west England say new restrictions are needed because of a huge rise in waiting lists

What this Washington reporter with autism wants you to understand.

Those who follow recipes want to make the dish. Those who stay neutral about this fact want it made for them.

After the Families Belong Together protests this past weekend, we talk to Greek media scholar Alexandra Boutopoulou on the widely used phrase, "They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds," and its poetic origins.

Strengths-based approaches to autism are increasing in research and clinical practice. Such approaches suggest facilitating autistic people to increase the use ...

Horrified by the misinformation peddled by MAGA truthers? You should be just as concerned about grievance-based autism parent orgs.

Dearest Colleagues, A couple of major academic publishers have recently approached me about putting together a Neuroqueer Theory anthology. I’ve taken this as a good indicator that the time is ripe for such a thing—though I’ve decided to publish it through the worker-owned indie publishing collective Autonomous Press (of which I’m a founding member), because

“Autism as Environmental Displacement - I've been reflecting on the Autistic phrase 'I want to go home' and how our sensory environments too often feel opposed to our nature; like we are fish out of water.”

“"Autism is not defined by an absence. It is defined by vividness. I see the world in all its colours and sounds. You see 20 shades of green. I see 200. I notice the things that others don't. It is chaotic, but it's vivid. - by @ItsEmilyKaty / Thanks I CAN Network Ltd for the post”

Medical research is held as a field for education to emulate. Education researchers have been urged to adopt randomized controlled trials, a more “scientific” research method believed to have resulted in the advances in medicine. But a much more important lesson education needs to borrow from medicine has been ignored. That is the study of side effects. Medical research is required to investigate both the intended effects of any medical interventions and their unintended adverse effects, or side effects. In contrast, educational research tends to focus only on proving the effectiveness of practices and policies in pursuit of “what works.” It has generally ignored the potential harms that can result from what works. This article presents evidence that shows side effects are inseparable from effects. Both are the outcomes of the same intervention. This article further argues that studying and reporting side effects as part of studying effects will help advance education by settling long fought battles over practices and policies and move beyond the vicious cycle of pendulum swings in education.

For years now, there have been increased calls for teaching to become an “evidence-based” practice, as teachers have faced immense pressure to adopt the expe...

“It's an example of what we see All The Time. That no-one bothers to ask us. Then they make up an alleged fact. Then their alleged fact makes it into policy. Then they tell us that we don't know anything, because we're not like the Children They Did Not Ask. It's boggling stuff”

I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a solarpunk city. Follow & support: https://www.patreon.com/seanbodley https://www.annasorokinaart.com/ https://www.instagram.com/annasorokinaart/ Thanks to @lilbilliam for voicing the skit! JOIN THE DISCORD FOR THE SOLARPUNK ART COLLAB: https://discord.gg/Xg7CXZbQHp The list of artists used is in the outro. Introduction - 0:00 The Rise of Urbanisation - 3:52 City Planning - 10:01 The Right to the City - 15:48 SKIT - 19:35 Solarpunk City Planning - 21:19 Anarchist Urban Struggles - 31:11 Conclusion - 36:19 = Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/saintdrew = Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/_saintdrew = Music: @ForeignManInAForeignLand Sun (prod. salmon the ghost) https://soundcloud.com/salmontheghost outro music: Cedar Womb by joe zempel YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCuMhK75-tYDMV_7nEExFmg Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3vVDncwsr2d6svvsH8WVYO?si=XCvFfCf5RM--WiCRHTUjgw&dl_branch=1 = Sources & Resources: The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow Seeing Like A State by James C Scott Colin Ward - Housing: an Anarchist Approach Planet of Slums by Mike Davis Social Ecology and the Right to the City by various The Limits of the City by Murray Bookchin

An Op-Ed piece by Bijan C. Bayne for The Washington Post. You want to talk about Black history? Well, here’s a bit of etymology about a word that everyone’s been using but few have gotten quite rig…

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Grand Round given at Harbor UCLA (Torrance, California March 14, 2023)Dr Grosjean has been a psychiatrist for over 30 years. She worked as Faculty at Harbor ...

Background Suicidality is highly prevalent in autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disabilities, and high autistic traits are found in adults who have attempted suicide. However, prevalence rates for both autistic and possibly autistic people have not been synthesised meta-analytically. Aims To (1) calculate pooled prevalence estimates of suicidality in autistic people and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability; (2) evaluate the influence of participant and study level characteristics on heterogeneity; and (3) determine the quality of evidence. Methods Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines were followed. PsycINFO, Embase, MEDLINE and Web of Science were systematically searched from 1992 to January 25, 2022. Empirical quantitative studies reporting prevalence of suicidal ideation, suicide plans, or suicide attempts and behaviours were considered for inclusion. Random effects models were used to estimate pooled prevalence of each suicidality outcome with 95% confidence intervals. Heterogeneity was explored using sensitivity and moderator analyses. Results Data from 48,186 autistic and possibly autistic participants in 36 primary studies were meta-analysed. Pooled prevalence of suicidal ideation was 34.2% (95% CI 27.9–40.5), suicide plans 21.9% (13.4–30.4), and suicidal attempts and behaviours 24.3% (18.9–29.6). High levels of heterogeneity (I2  75) were observed in all three analyses. Estimates did not differ between autistic or possibly autistic samples. Geographical location (p = 0.005), transgender or gender non-conforming samples (p  0.001) and type of report (p  0.001) significantly moderated suicidal ideation, whereas age group (p = 0.001) and measure of suicidality (p = 0.001) significantly moderated suicide plans. There was a significant association between the proportion of male participants and prevalence of suicide plans, with a decrease in the proportion of males for every unit change of suicide plan prevalence (p = 0.013). No variables were found to moderate estimates of suicide attempts and behaviours. Conclusions The results confirm suicidality is highly prevalent in both autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability and highlights potential moderators. Possibly autistic individuals require more attention in clinical and research considerations going forward to further understand and prevent suicide in both groups.