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Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from our collections.

These findings will help inform a 25-year national study that will track young people’s digital media use and wellbeing into adulthood.

Autistic people share their experiences of distraction.

This article examines the lived experiences of ADHDers with respect to time perception, through the lens of a neuroqueer temporality framework and its representation in graphic medicine. By close-reading autobiographical comics digitally posted by Pina Varnel (ADHD Alien), Dani Donovan, Heidi Burton …

Last year, the state ended a trailblazing law decriminalizing possession. Drug users in some counties are now in and out of jail, without lawyers, struggling to get treatment

In recent years a lot more people have been identifying as neurodivergent.

Everyone has something to say. Working closely with the AAC community, we build apps and share best practice to help you communicate with the world.

Most autistic adolescents experience anxiety. Interoception, defined as one’s ability to detect and interpret bodily signals, might contribute to this. The aim ...

I want to talk about three key theories developed by autistic people, all of which are really about people in general, but which are all needed by anyone who hopes to understand Autistic people in…

Time to Level Up. 

Informed, voluntary, ongoing consent is a central tenet of ethical research. However, consent processes are prone to exclusionary practices and inaccessibility. Consent materials are often too long and complex to foster understanding and ensure that people make truly informed decisions to participate in research. While this complexity is problematic for all people, these challenges are compounded for autistic people and people with intellectual disability. Consent materials and procedures rarely incorporate accommodations for processing and communication differences common in autism and intellectual disability. Failure to provide such accommodations ultimately threatens the conduct of ethical research. We describe lessons learned across multiple major U.S. research institutions that improved informed consent materials and procedures, with the goal of fostering responsible inclusion in research for autistic people and people with intellectual disability. We used these alternative materials and procedures in multiple research projects with samples of autistic people and people with intellectual disability. Each contributing team partnered with university human research participant protections personnel, accessibility experts, community members, and researchers to develop rigorous procedures for improving the readability and accessibility of informed consent materials. We present guidelines for designing consent materials and procedures and assert that participatory methods are vital to the success of ongoing accessibility initiatives. Adoption of understandable consent materials and accessible consent procedures can cultivate more equitable, respectful, and inclusive human research practices. Future work should expand on this work to design inclusive practices for populations with additional considerations.

The Irish Examiner is a different and distinct voice in the Ireland’s national discourse, highlighting stories and perspectives not found elsewhere. We are extremely proud of our Cork and Munster roots but write about issues affecting all Irish people every day.

Australian Psychological Society on how to host events for neurodiverse attendees.

Jessica Winter writes about Linda McMahon, the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, and Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. Department of Education.

Thanks to Mike Small for the cross-post from his Substack . Mike is editor of Bella Caledonia, who are running this fund-raiser - please support. In October 2017 the writer Robert McFarlane and the artist Jackie Morris produced ‘Lost Words’ - a ‘book of spells’ to conjure back into existenc

OpenResearch is a nonprofit research lab that seeks to answer open-ended questions.

The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States

SXSW 2025 Schedule | How can cash in hand transform the lives of low-income Americans? This panel dives deep into the data, exploring the tangible and intangible impacts of cash assistance and how these insights can revolutionize our approach to vital social safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP—especially at a time when these programs face critical challenges. We'll examine how guaranteed income creates a ripple effect, touching everything from socioeconomic stability and family choices to employment prospe...

Since Artist-Organizer Kevin Gotkin joined CRNY in 2022, they have been working on a range of projects that help us understand and support the lives and livelihoods of Deaf and disabled artists.

*Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism* explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing several popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. Lisa Diedrich shows how illness- and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle and how illness politics is informed by, intersects with, and sometimes stands in for sexual, racial, and class politics. She argues that illness politics is central—and profoundly important—to both mainstream and radical politics, and she investigates the dynamic intersection of media and health and health-activist practices to show how their confluence affects our perception and understanding of illness.

[Open Access] A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemicHow to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicenter of COVID-19: New York City. Among those hardest hit by the pandemic, disability communities across the five boroughs have been disproportionately impacted by city and national policies, work and housing conditions, stigma, racism, and violence—as much as by the virus itself. Disabled and chronically-ill activists have protested plans for medical rationing and refuted the eugenic logic of mainstream politicians and journalists who “reassure” audiences that only older people and those with disabilities continue to die from COVID-19. At the same time, as exemplified by the viral hashtag #DisabledPeopleToldYou, disability expertise has become widely recognized in practices such as accessible remote work and education, quarantine, and distributed networks of support and mutual aid. This edited volume charts the legacies of this “mass disabling event” for uncertain viral futures, exploring the dialectic between disproportionate risk and the creativity of a disability justice response.How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic includes contributions by wide-ranging disability scholars, writers, and activists whose research and lived experiences chronicle the pandemic’s impacts in prisons, migrant detention centers, Chinatown senior centers, hospitals in Queens and the Bronx, subways, schools, housing shelters, social media, and other locations of public and private life. By focusing on New York City over the course of three years, the book reveals key themes of the pandemic, including hierarchies of disability "vulnerability," the deployment of disability as a tool of population management, and innovative crip pandemic cultural production. How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic honors those lost, as well as those who survived, by calling for just policies and caring infrastructures, not only in times of crisis but for the long haul.

Play is a central feature of childhood and a fundamental right of all children. Currently, our understanding of autistic play is based on a deficit perspective,...

Surviving Safeguarding writes about how social work language can create barriers between children, families and the system