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Social media has become a major platform for information-exchange, discourse, and protest and has been linked to a wide range of pressing macro develo…

Transcript: https://app.fora.io/conversation/5569 This is Dr Mary Helen Immordino-Yang's keynote from HRP's Conference to Restore Humanity 2024. Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang is a distinguished scholar specializing in the intersection of psychology, neurobiology, and education, focusing on social emotion, self-awareness, culture, and their impact on learning and development. Her work includes a range of studies on adolescent brain development, SEL competencies, and mindsets, and she has authored Emotions, Learning and the Brain on the educational implications of affective neuroscience. Chapters: Intro - Solving the Frankenstein Problem 0:00-5:38 Describing the Brain - Aqueous 5:38-15:33 Emotion, Identity, & learning 15:34-19:20 NOVA School of the Future 19:21-24:54 Going into the Brain 24:55-38:41 Making Meaning 38:42-42:37 The Seesaw Model 42:38-48:33 Case Studies 48:34-55:40 Closing 55:41 We wanted to thank our sponsors and partners for helping us host this incredible event. Cortico is our transcription partner. Cortico’s Fora app brings people together in recorded small-group conversations around their lived experiences. Through a powerful combination of AI and human listening, Fora enables organizations to make sense of the conversations they collect, surfacing community voices into public dialogue and decision making – with authenticity, nuance, and transparency that surveys and focus groups cannot match. The Minor Collective is a community-based movement to reimagine school. Thought Sanctuary™ is a gathering space curated by The Minor Collective for educators to meet joyfully, safely, and powerfully; generating ideas that are dream-based, yet reality-laden. Characterized by this thoughtful approach, participants in Thought Sanctuary™ can look forward to making connections with other conference attendees, sharing abundant ideas, staying curious, and also, having some fun! Here, everyone will work together to help all the powerful learning from keynotes, conversations, and workshops land, touching the realities of everyday classroom life. Stimpunks Foundation is dedicated to creating a more inclusive and equitable world for neurodivergent and disabled individuals. By challenging traditional systems and advocating for accessibility, Stimpunks promotes a supportive community that celebrates diversity and empowers people to thrive in their unique ways. Their innovative approach combines direct support with advocacy and education, driving change in both public perception and policy. #ScienceofLearning #education #neuroscience ----------------------------------------------- Learn more about our free resources, podcast, writings, and more at https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/ Join our Discord (link on website!) Twitter: https://twitter.com/HumResPro Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/humanrestorationproject/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/humrespro/ Want a HUMANIZE EDUCATION shirt? https://www.rayguncustom.com/collections/human-restoration-project Human Restoration Project is a 501(c)3 nonprofit centered on enabling human-centered schools through progressive pedagogy. All content is released under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike international license unless otherwise noted. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Subscribe to our podcast on your favorite player at "Human Restoration Project."

“We can win more together than we can on our own.”

“Eradicate climate change references”; only talk to conservative media; don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover. In a series of never-before-published videos, Project 2025 details how a second Trump administration would operate.

Like his oddball rock songs, Frank Zappa’s family defied description. His music, and his kids’ pain, has endured.

Autistic people experience many "sensory icks" regularly. Autistic writer Shamiha Patel shares a checklist of sensory triggers.

In San Francisco, thousands of people lived on the streets while an average of 990 supportive housing units sat empty last year. A Chronicle analysis reveals why.

Purpose There is a common mischaracterisation that autistic individuals have reduced or absent empathy. Measurement issues may have influenced existing findings on the relationships between autism and empathy, and the structure of the empathy construct in autism remains unclear. Methods The present study sought to address these gaps by examining the structure and psychometric properties of the Perth Empathy Scale (PES) in autistic individuals (N = 239) compared to non-autistic individuals (N = 690). Results Our moderated non-linear factor analysis revealed that the multidimensional empathy construct manifested similarly in autistic and non-autistic individuals, with the PES displaying good validity and reliability. Moreover, the results revealed that autistic individuals reported reduced cognitive empathy and reduced affective empathy for positive and negative emotions. However, there was greater heterogeneity of empathic tendencies in the autistic sample, indicating that these mean differences may not be generalisable for all autistic individuals. Conclusion The present study highlights that the PES is suitable for assessing empathy across autistic and non-autistic individuals. This work with the PES also provides greater nuance to our understanding of empathy and autism, and based on these findings, we propose the empathy heterogeneity hypothesis of autism as a new way of describing empathy in autism.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities.

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the most comprehensive federal civil rights statute protecting the rights of people with disabilities. It affects access to employment; state and local government programs and services; access to places of public accommodation such as businesses, transportation, and nonprofit service providers; and telecommunications.

A protocol for utilizing design thinking to plan experiential projects. | A free resource hosted at Human Restoration Project on progressive education.

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Background: In the United Kingdom, more than 2.5 million adults with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), can face difficulties accessing diagnosis and support. Our qualitative study explores people’s experiences of receiving a diagnosis in adulthood and its impact on their lives. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with seven health care professionals and 13 late-diagnosed adults (5 autistic, 5 with ADHD, and 3 with dual diagnoses) using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: We developed five themes from the analysis representing the journey and factors influencing participants’ experiences of receiving a late diagnosis: (1) the key role of relationships and mental well-being; (2) the wider impact on well-being and lifelong mental health; (3) understanding—the answer to postdiagnosis changes; (4) the flip side of diagnosis—the burden of a label; and (5) are you ready—the importance of timing. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates the multiple impacts a lack of diagnosis has and the many benefits experienced from receiving one. Although a lack of diagnosis can at times have some negative effects, the importance of understanding and the wider impacts on relationships and mental well-being are discussed. Primarily, the emerging concept of being ready and the importance of the right timing highlight an important nuance in the diagnosis journey.

One of the retired Professors was reflecting on a lifetime in autism work. She said that a big change was the 'escape' of autism from the ...

Over the next few decades, agility will not come from speed; it will come from the ability to explore multiple domains at once and combine them into something that produces value. This means computer scientists working with cancer scientists, for example, to identify specific genetic markers that could lead to a cure. This change will be profound and we will need to rethink old notions about how we compete, collaborate, and bring new products to market. Here are three key shifts.

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Discover The Anthropology of Childhood, 3rd Edition, David F. Lancy, HB ISBN: 9781108837781 on Higher Education from Cambridge

Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can ...

What makes "schoolish" learning alienating, and how do we put authenticity and joy back into education? An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.

After adjusting for the new tax revenue, the state currently faces a budget gap of around $233 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30.

In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that established the Shareholder Supremacy, and set the terms for General Electric's Jack Welch to fundamentally break capitalism, an era where companies moved away from building lasting, sustainable companies that created things and instead began focusing on pleasing shareholders - and how it leads to today's terrible tech companies and leaders. LINKS: https://tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Discord chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials - http://www.twitter.com/edzitroninstagram.com/edzitronhttps://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.socialhttps://www.threads.net/@edzitron

This Review outlines the current state of scientific evidence on long COVID, discusses its impacts on patients, health systems, economies and global health metrics, and proposes a forward-looking research and policy roadmap.

While organizers say the call was a success, participants and community leaders are frustrated by a lack of substance, organization and policy discussion.

Disabled patients are rightfully terrified of being hospitalized. We are stripped of our agency and control in a hospital environment. Having an effective advocate can vastly improve the experience.