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Barriers to Education practical tools: co-produced with young people to explore needs, build trust and apply WARMTH. Includes card sorts, mapping, audits and creative approaches.

Some young people may find the school environment overwhelming due to sensory differences and sensitivities, which can increase anxiety. This tool is designed to help school staff identify and reduce common sensory triggers across the school setting. The audit highlights key sensory areas to review, such as sound, light, smell, and layout, in a variety […]

Joanne Lee Molinaro is a Korean American trial lawyer, New York Times best-selling author, James Beard Award-winner, and host of the Are You Ready podcast. W...

jtknoxroxs on October 3, 2025: "#AutisticJoy Timeline Cleanse! Alongside my Autistic Joy PhotoZine exhibition now up at @julioartgallery I’ve been working on something super special for the past few weeks that I’m hoping will resonate with my Autistic and Neurodivergent community! You can officially pick up a FREE copy my new Autistic Joy Manifesto next Wednesday evening at my Zine Workshop at @loyola.arts @julioartgallery ✊🏾 you can also Download a FREE copy to Share, Print, and Act! Available in Spanish and Portuguese! (Link In Bio) To my comrades, we must continue to take up space! Our words, our art, our joy is our weapon. The Revolution is AstroBright Not your everyday manifesto https://bit.ly/AutisticJoyManifesto Autistic Joy Manifesto By @jtknoxroxs Autistic Joy is Radical Autistic Joy is Audacious Rebellion Autistic Joy is The Abolition of Fear Autistic Joy is Exemplified Through Self Advocacy, Self Acceptance, and Self Love Autistic Joy Breaks the Cycle of Generational Trauma and Oppression Autistic Joy Dismantles Unjust Stigmas Autistic Joy is Not Letting Ableism Win Autistic Joy is Collective Autistic Joy is Love Autistic Joy is Fluid Autistic Joy is Survival".

PDF | This study aimed to examine the experiences of late-diagnosed Indian women with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), focusing on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

🐼 Welcome to The Children’s e-Hospital! New here? 👋 Join us for a quick tour of our Harley Street clinic. We’ll show you where to find us, what our waiting areas look like, and give you a feel for...

A range of information and resources underpinned by the WARMTH framework, aiming to address barriers to education so young people can thrive.

The WARMTH Framework: six key areas co-produced with 1,500+ stakeholders to build safety, belonging and support - leading to improved outcomes.

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Understanding autism prevalence within the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and forensic settings has implications for identifying clinical/forensic needs, planning responses, potentially improving ou...

When talking about flow, most people probably think of a highly desirable state associated with a broad variety of positive outcomes in terms of positive motivation, well-being and performance. In contrast, this chapter suggests that the characteristics of flow also...

On December 6th, a group of autism researchers commissioned by The Lancet released a report on the future of autism services and research. This report primarily deals with the need for better services and research for autistic people, including the need for individualized services, and research that prioritizes quality of…

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Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…

Brian Merchant's assertion that "The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing," The Jacobin's claim that "The AI Revolution Might Be Running Out of Steam" – these feel a bit too optimistic perhaps, particularly if you're one of many educators who's been compelled these past few weeks/months to sit in back-to-school training sessions in which administrators crow about whatever "AI" product they purchased last spring: how it's poised to allow you to "do more" [unspoken: with less]. "AI" as counseling.

Self-identification as Neurodivergent can be a difficult topic to navigate. If you are newly learning about your own Neurodivergence there are often multiple conflicting sources of information. This guide explains what self-identification is and the reasons that people may self-identify, in addition

When you or your kid is diagnosed as autistic, almost all of the professional advice you get from education and healthcare is steeped in deficit ideology and the pathology paradigm. There is a better way.

Objective: Experiences of “auditory hyper-reactivity” and decreased sound tolerance, which can be separated into phenotypes such as hyperacusis and misophonia, ...

Researcher Emily Casanova, PhD, provides updates on her emerging research findings on genes and susceptibility to autism.

Do you know what it really means if Tylenol shows an association with autism? It means we need stress models. •We need to understand neurodiversity as emergent — traits and trade-offs, not pathologies. •We need to understand timing and context, because the same exposure can have completely different outcomes. •We need to understand how everyday stressors destabilize ecosystems: nutrition, infections, trauma, social inequity, toxins, sleep loss, maternal age, and dozens more. •We need biopsychosocial-nutritional models, not single-cause scapegoats. •We need ecological models that show how stress loads interact. Tylenol and vaccines are everyday stressors. If something that common can sometimes tip a system, it’s not about toxicity alone — it’s about stress as a messenger. Oxidative stress, inflammation, HPA recalibration: these are signals, not villains. Autism is not “caused” by one pill or one shot. Autism is an emergent neurotype, shaped when developmental scaffolding adapts under stress-energy constraints. The real takeaway? 👉 If the same thing can lead to different outcomes, then our current medical models don’t work. We need complexity. We need stress science. We need to evolve beyond germ theory and linear cause-effect thinking. Until we do, every public debate will stay stuck in the wrong question: Did Tylenol cause autism? Instead, we should be asking: Why does stress, in all its forms, shape our health outcomes — and how can we build systems that listen, buffer, and recalibrate? Tylenol & Autism: 6 Key Studies 1. Ji 2019, JAMA Psych — Cord-blood Tylenol metabolites → dose–response with ASD/ADHD. 2. Baker 2020, JAMA Peds — Meconium biomarkers → ADHD risk + brain connectivity changes. 3. Ahlqvist 2024, JAMA — 2.5M births; signal in crude models, gone in sibling controls. 4. Alemany 2021, Eur J Epidemiol — 6 EU cohorts; modest ↑ risk, mixed sensitivity results. 5. Hornig 2018, Mol Psych — Prenatal fever (reason for Tylenol) linked with ↑ ASD risk. 6. Prada 2025, Env Health — Nav. Guide systematic review; evidence = “limited but concerning.” ✨ Takeaway: Association ≠ causation. Signals are rare. Stress, timing, and ecosystem context matter. We need stress models, not single-cause villains.

We’ve come too far to go back to a time when autism was defined solely in terms of deficits and mothers were made to feel guilty.

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New research finds half of LGBTQ young people live in the 27 states where a swell of new laws restrict their in-school rights.