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Safeguarding Neurodivergent individuals from spiritual abuse

Background: Some autistic individuals report not connecting with neurotypical gender constructs. A general-population-based theory of gender identity developmen...

Co-opt : to adopt an idea, language or concept for one own's use - often at the expense of erasing the original meaning and intent. When we say a term is socio-political, we are acknowledging the social and political factors and dynamics at play - oppression, privilege, inequality, exclusion and mor

Background/Context In recent decades, federal policymakers have pushed for education to be a more “scientific” endeavor. While scholars have considered the imp...

A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.

The agency is now barely pretending to follow disability law. Its former civil rights head says that makes ICE vulnerable.

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Formazione & insegnamento is an Open Access Journal that publishes research on education and training, with focus on continuing education, educational policies in a European and global context, pedagogy, and teaching. It was founded in 2003 by the late Prof. Umberto Margiotta

We made a myriad of accessibility improvements, and paid extra attention to the needs of the vision-impaired. In this post, we discuss some of the changes we made.

For a long time, society had a story for children who were suddenly different—emotionally distant, less social, or with new health challenges. The story was ...

Thou Shalt Not Be Indifferent Marian Turski, speech at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 27th January 2020. Dear friends, I am one of the few still alive of those who …

Project Eugenics: The Rollback of Disability Rights

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing ADHD could transform education

Writer and scholar Laura Mauldin's new book takes on the hidden politics of spousal care.

In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."

Pressure to achieve at school at age 15 is linked to depressive symptoms and risk of self-harm, and the association appears to persist into adulthood, finds a study led by UCL researchers.

Welcome to the Eternal September of open source. Here’s what we plan to do for maintainers.

Purpose: In the last 5 years, many states have introduced science of reading (SOR) reforms that require increased attention to foundational skills instruction in grades K–3. The fast spread of these policies raises questions about the mechanisms that facilitated their rapid adoption. The purpose of this article is to examine how SOR discourses obscured or legitimated agendas of various policy actors involved in promoting literacy reforms. Research Methods/Approach: Grounded in anthropology of policy, this study examines interactions between legislators, policy makers, and policy advocates in Tennessee. Data sources include video recordings of legislative sessions, policy artifacts, reports, media articles, and interviews. Findings: The study documents how the focus on the “science of reading” disguises pursuits of conservative think tanks and major philanthropies in promoting curriculum reforms. Intermediary organizations’ advocacy for particular instructional materials and consulting services aligned with Common Core State Standards, even in the states that moved away from them, paves the way for greater standardization, centralization, and expansion of private sector involvement in educational services. Implications: Positioned in the wider sociopolitical context of neoliberal education reforms, SOR advocacy becomes a performance that obscures privatizers’ efforts to use literacy legislation as a mechanism for securing a market share for their products and services.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Many autistic adults experience anxiety in ways that are qualitatively unique when compared to the experiences of non-autistic adults. In this...

Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs: commentary, Quinn et al

This systematic review with narrative synthesis aimed to examine the available evidence on the relationship between neurodiversity and cognitive load …

If the idea of “curing” autism reveals such brutality of intentional disregard for neurodiversity. If the RFKJr/Trump/AntiVax crowd’s belief that you’d rather your child be dead than autistic reveals…

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

Anthony Baye is pursuing his college degree while serving a sentence in a Massachusetts prison. This is his story of embracing social and emotional learning.