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A pilot study is investigating how the drug could affect social anxiety in autistic adults.

We integrate work from human development, psychology, education, and neuroscience to argue for five interrelated developmental principles that together provide the conceptual basis for a fundamental shift in thinking in education about the nature of learning, and hence the work of teaching, and the purpose and design of schools and youth-facing policies. These principles foreground humans’ natural agency, subjectivity, and variability, and the dynamic, adaptive interdependence of body, mind, and culture in development and learning. We take the analogy of weaving cloth to highlight the properties and valuable variations of effective educational systems. We argue that reconceptualizing learning is necessary to meaningfully improve schooling and its outcomes, support equity and human dignity, and, ultimately, to build a sustainable democratic society.

Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.

Midrashic Possibilities for the Torah's Most Extra Child

The methodology is arbitrary and misleading.

We study the long-term effects of a randomized intervention targeting children’s socio-emotional skills. The classroom-based intervention for primary school children has positive impacts that persist for over a decade. Treated children become more likely to complete academic high school and enroll in university. Two mechanisms drive these results.

The application of machine learning to accessibility is not new, but as AI explodes in popularity, it’s certainly getting more attention. Auto-craptions

Microsoft’s Accessibility Innovation Strategist discusses AI’s potential for accessibility, emphasizing the need for responsible use and diverse teams to mitigate harm and promote inclu…

Mentra’s mission is to employ 100,000 talented neurodiverse individuals by 2025. Join today to close the autism employment gap as a candidate, recruiter, or vocational rehabilitation center. Founded at Georgia Tech by disability advocates, Mentra's aim is to create an accessible future for those on the autism spectrum, including Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, OCD, Dyslexia, and other learning disabilities.

Objective To assess the extent and types of financial ties to industry of panel and task force members of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , fifth edition, text revision (DSM-5-TR), published in 2022. Design Cross sectional analysis. Setting Open Payments database, USA. Participants 92 physicians based in the US who served as members of either a panel (n=86) or task force (n=6) on the DSM-5-TR with information recorded in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Open Payments database during 2016-19. This period was chosen to include the year that development of the DSM-5-TR began and the three years preceding, a time consistent with previous research on conflicts of interest and consistent with the American Psychiatric Association’s disclosure requirements for the fifth revision (DSM-5) of the manual. Main outcome measures Type and amount of compensation the panel and task force members of DSM-5-TR received during 2016-19. Results After duplicate names had been removed, 168 individuals were identified who served as either panel or task force members of the DSM-5-TR. 92 met the inclusion criteria of being a physician who was based in the US and therefore could be included in Open Payments. Of these 92 individuals, 55 (60%) received payments from industry. Collectively, these panel members received a total of $14.2m (£11.2m; €13m). One third (33.3%) of the task force members had payments reported in Open Payments. Conclusions Conflicts of interest among panel members of DSM-5-TR were prevalent. Because of the enormous influence of diagnostic and treatment guidelines, the standards for participation on a guideline development panel should be high. A rebuttable presumption should exist for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to prohibit conflicts of interest among its panel and task force members. When no independent individuals with the requisite expertise are available, individuals with associations to industry could consult to the panels, but they should not have decision making authority on revisions or the inclusion of new disorders. The raw data used in this study is publicly available at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.

Why Weird Pride? School can be a difficult place for kids who stand out, for whatever reason. Sometimes, children find it easy to pick on those who are seen as different. That could be because they look different, they talk differently, or their access needs are different. It is not natural or inevitable for people […]

The theory of Monotropism was developed by Murray et al. (2005) in their article, Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism. The Monotropism Questionnaire was created by Garau et al. (2023). A self-scoring version of the Monotropism Questionnaire was created by David Cary. The information below will hopefully provide some clarity for anyone who has taken the Monotropism Questionnaire and are unsure what their results may mean. Picture 1 = an example score of some one who

Part One: Why do we have the schools we have?

Monotropism and Connections

pThe Double Empathy Problem suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differences in comm...

Initial analysis of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) suggests that mobile phone bans might help with...

Clinical Psychologist helping overwhelmed autistic people live fulfilling lives without sacrificing their mental health.

It's striking how many people fail to understand that quantified evaluations, such as standardized tests and rubrics, are no more objective than narratives & other qualitative appraisals. They just use numbers to conceal the subjective judgments that underpin them.— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) February 15, 2024

Weird Pride is not about WEIRD pride, in the sense of Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic. This is an acronym used to give a name to a common problem in social sciences, but also more broadly: acting as if countries and people that broadly fit those descriptors are representative of the world at large, […]

The traditional leader wants to be right. The creative leader *hopes* to be right. https://t.co/AtkCqCvbW3 pic.twitter.com/izDm8MZlXq— John Maeda (@johnmaeda) October 27, 2016

This has proven to be a sturdy idea, and was created with Becky Bermont.

facing one of the hardest narrative arcs in the Bible armed with the truth of what really happened

This project seeks volunteers to write a single-paragraph biography about a disabled radical. The aim is to raise awareness of disability history and disabled people's involvement in radical social movements.

Another amazing spoken word response to the Warwickshire SEND Scandal. This one from glenn_advocate_of_hope on TikTok pic.twitter.com/mrbTqy0LoN— Elissa Noves (@ElissaNoves) February 11, 2024

Ken Robinson once famously said, “Students are educated in batches, according to age, as if the most important thing they have in common is their date of manufacture.” (Ken Robinson, The Element: H…

Conor Galvin sent me a link to poem I had almost forgotten, and it started thoughts spinning... ( Dr. Galvin on Twitter ) St. Kevin and ...

Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable