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**Disclaimer – I am not an autism expert. I am only talking from my experience of autism, and also from what I have learned from conversations with other autistic people close to me. I am not…

CPD certified online courses with films, reflective journal and resources. Created by Autism Wellbeing CIC and Autistic adults

Autism Wellbeing CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise based in Carmarthenshire. We are a team of professionals working collaboratively with families and individuals affected by autism. Get in touch to learn more about our work and how we can help you.

An accessible ecommerce site doesn't require an expert. Learn the six most common accessibility errors and how to fix them in-house.

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Keyboard Navigation Who does it benefit? Screen reader users and users of keyboards or alternative input devices who are sighted. Theme authors must provide visual keyboard focus highlighting in na…

Before the main content, there can be navigation links, search, or other elements. For keyboard and screen reader users it can be frustrating to get to the main content of a page because you have t…

Solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaboratively—through an "undisciplinary" approach, a new Cornell study suggests.

In August 2021, the SF State Comics Studies Program, Program in Visual Impairments, and Longmore Institute of Disability hosted a one-day symposium to explor...

Accessible Comics for the Blind Project – an ongoing collaboration at SFSU between Comics, Studies, the Program for Visual Impairment, and the Longmore Institute (now called The Accessible Comics Collective) to explore ways of making comics accessible for blind and low vision readers. The Accessible Comics Collective has now hosted two international conversations, with an…

Watchmen is a classic comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons, published in 1986. It's set in an alternate history where the existence of superheroes changed American politics, culture and everyday life.

Participatory research methods connect researchers with relevant communities to achieve shared goals. These methods can deliver results that are relevant to peo...

Participatory research methods connect researchers with relevant communities to achieve shared goals. These methods can deliver results that are relevant to people's lives and thus likely to have a positive impact. In the context of a large and growing body of autism research, with continued poor im …

Not everybody is in a position to resume normality, artist Aine O’Hara says, and with “Sick Cards”, she hopes those overlooked have a chance to be seen.

This article traces the history of speech wave visualization and the longstanding relationship between phonetics, communication engineering, and deaf oral education. American telephone engineers drew on this history to build the sound spectrograph in the 1940s, a machine that transformed the representation of sounds by considering speech not in terms of meaning nor in terms of airborne waveforms but in terms of the characteristics of its perception and the minimum features by which it could be reconstructed. The sound spectrograph was designed to make telephone transmission more efficient and to support deaf oral communication; the ability of deaf subjects to read spectrograms was, moreover, the best evidence for the identification of information-bearing features in a complex speech wave. The sound spectrograph directly influenced information theory, which gave mathematical instructions for the efficient digital encoding of audio and visual signals. Spectrograms suggested that much of the content of speech was redundant or irrelevant and could be discarded without a listener perceiving any difference. It will be argued that deafness ultimately served as an “assistive pretext” for nineteenth-century phoneticians and twentieth-century engineers, who quickly turned to more profitable applications for their devices.

NEWS The Banality of Eugenics The now-dominant and most transmissible variant of COVID-19 is driving yet another surge of cases and hospitalizations around the world, as mask mandates and proof-of-vaccination requirements in public life have vanished. Experts fear

The tragic death toll was all too predictable, in a system that decided old and disabled people weren’t worth keeping safe, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

A federal class-action suit filed last week charges that the state Department of Health...

Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders - Autism can create increased stress for the person with this diagnosis, as well as family members and other caregivers. Interventions are needed to reduce...

The first ever Weird Pride Day is this 4th of March, 2021–03–04.

So much has changed in our understanding of how autism impacts our lives. We still have a long way to go, however, until it becomes the norm that the principle ...

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is estimated to affect around 1% of the population, and is characterised by impairments in social interaction,...