Whose Normal is it Anyway?
By Dinah Murray Chapter 7 of Wenn Lawson’s Concepts of Normality (2008), which is available as an ebook. Reproduced here with permission. Whose Normal is it Anyway? PDF fileDownload Autism is…
Open Society
Autism and anaesthesia: a simple framework for everyday practice
As the autistic experience of the world differs from that of non-autistic people, so too does autistic behaviour. Understanding what is usual for an autistic patient facilitates care. Repetitive behaviour, which is common to autistic people, is termed ‘stimming’. It varies in manifestation and function, but may include hand flapping, whole body movements or the subtle use of fidget tools. In stressful situations, anxiety may be alleviated by stimming, so we advise encouraging the use of whatever tools a patient finds beneficial.
Being with. 3 min video poster competition for NCRM
The Research Methods e Festival was an online event organised by NCRM, to be a celebration of research methods with an interdisciplinary focus.Post Graduate ...
(PDF) “Pathological Demand-Avoidance” as a “Profile of ASD” & “Profound Autism”.
PDF | Since the broadening of autism into a spectrum in the late 1980s, there have been constant attempts to create subtypes of autistic persons. By the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Thread by @Richard_Autism on Thread Reader App
@Richard_Autism: So, this is a thread on draft text of slides for a video on "Examples how “Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) Profile of ASD” seems to be a constructed category." Usual caveats, not providing text ...…
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Joel McHale Opens Up About Raising Son with Autism: 'Just Love That Kid' (Exclusive)
Joel McHale is opening up about raising his son Edward, who has autism, saying that "life throws you all sorts of things." The comedian is dad to sons Edward, 19, and Isaac, 15, whom he shares with wife Sarah.
Centering Autistic Perspectives: Social Acceptability of Goals, Learning Contexts, and Procedures for Young Autistic Children
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Despite the importance of centering autistic perspectives in educational decision-making for autistic children, few studies have directly assessed...
Workplace accommodations self reflection
Thriving Autistic
A visual language for describing wellbeing
In indigenous societies human scale groups are those who we regularly rely on for mutual aid and assistance. In small societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone. T…
With the help of written language, WEIRD societies and powered-up empires emphasise and formalised a top-down perspective on the propagation of cultural practices and values. With the context of empires, education is no longer primarily about omni-directional learning at human scale, but it degrades into various forms of uni-directional indoctrination, administered by those in formal positions of “authority”.
In small human scale societies without abstract formal authorities, everyone learns from everyone, primarily by observation, imitation, and asking for assistance. For small children in human scale societies the household and extended family provide a rich environment for omni-directional learning.
Naomi Fisher on X: "There are many things which bother me about the Attitude to Learning canteen story, but actually there is something which bothers me more than the queue itself. Firstly, the attitude to learning (ATL) scales themselves. I’ve looked at several schools. Top grades on ATL are…" / X
There are many things which bother me about the Attitude to Learning canteen story, but actually there is something which bothers me more than the queue itself. Firstly, the attitude to learning (ATL) scales themselves. I’ve looked at several schools. Top grades on ATL are…— Naomi Fisher (@naomicfisher) February 24, 2024
Limerence, Love, and Neurodivergent Women
Limerence can be distressing and harmful. Knowing how to manage it is useful.
Limerence, Love, and Neurodivergent Women
Limerence can be distressing and harmful. Knowing how to manage it is useful.
Monotropism: An Emerging Attentional Concept
And a call for study participants!!!!!
Problems with “problem behavior”: A secondary systematic review of intervention research on transition-age autistic youth - Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Rachael McKinnon, Sarah Mohiuddin, Shannon Crowley LaPoint, So Yoon Kim, 2024
In this secondary systematic review of single-case and controlled group design intervention studies conducted with transition-age autistic youth, we examined fe...
Evolution of social ecosystems
Organisations are best thought of as cultural organisms. Groups of organisations with compatible operating models can be thought of as a cultural species. The human genus is the genus that includes…
Caverns, Pleats and Folds
The potential to neuroqueer is inside us all, within a fold in a cavern…
There is a natural human need to feel understood and connected; connections build relationships and support good mental health. For some people, those connections and relationships may not look different from the more conventional norms the majority of society holds but are equally valuable. For people who feel marginalised either by neurodivergence, disability or by being in another minority group, there is often no space already carved out for support and building connections in local communities. This can cause feelings of isolation and disconnection. Yet, the need to find people that understand and can connect within the same folds, with similar interests and values, can lead people to create their communities.It feels like a rabbit warren of underground tunnels and caves where people meet, mainly through online social media platforms. The continuous physical growth of these spaces where people are connecting is slowly creating ripples and heading into real family spaces and showing a genuine need for change in our education system as more and more children are showing how the current frameworks are just not meeting needs and resulting in school attendance difficulties and mental health concerns. There is a rise in the UK in families actively seeking alternative pathways through home education or alternative provision routes. Neuroqueering is not just a philosophical theory; it is about actively looking forpositive change and creating new paths in your life and for your family towards a happier future.
Literacy in nonspeaking autistic people - Vikram K Jaswal, Andrew J Lampi, Kayden M Stockwell, 2024
Autistic people who cannot speak risk being underestimated. Their inability to speak, along with other unconventional behaviors and mannerisms, can give rise to...
Reduction in social anxiety after MDMA-assisted psychotherapy with autistic adults: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study - PubMed
clinicaltrials.gov identifier, NCT02008396.
Could ecstasy be a potential treatment for PTSD? - Macleans.ca
The first clinical trial in Canada is under way to test whether the party drug could be part of a treatment for those with PTSD
A Clinical Trial Is Exploring How MDMA Could Help People With Autism
A pilot study is investigating how the drug could affect social anxiety in autistic adults.
PsyArXiv Preprints | Weaving a colorful cloth: Centering education on humans’ emergent developmental potentials
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.
Weaving a colorful cloth: Centering education on humans’ emergent developmental potentials - Abstract - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
(Gender)queering Joseph
Midrashic Possibilities for the Torah's Most Extra Child
Harvard Last in Free Speech? Don’t Trust FIRE’s Rankings.
The methodology is arbitrary and misleading.
The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success - The Review of Economic Studies
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.
Accessibility and Artificial Intelligence - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
The application of machine learning to accessibility is not new, but as AI explodes in popularity, it’s certainly getting more attention. Auto-craptions
Opportunities for AI in Accessibility
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: Neurodiversity Employment Network
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.
Journal of Community Nursing (JCN) - Article: ‘What I would like to say’ findings: cancer care for everyone
Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis
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.