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An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban designFrom a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing...

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In this manuscript, I argue that narratives of self-care for educators in the midst of pandemic teaching are a form of gaslighting, supported and exacerbated by...

A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.

Play evolved with mammals. The instinct runs as deep as our need for food and sleep. Learn about our biological drive to play.

A new study introduces the "Monotropism Questionnaire" as a potential diagnostic tool for autism, sparking widespread debate and interest.

Excessive pressures to excel, generally in affluent contexts, are now listed among the top 4 "high risk" factors for adolescents' mental health, along with exposure to poverty, trauma, and discrimination. Multiple studies of high-achieving school (HAS) cohorts have shown elevated rates of serious sy …

One of the strengths of the pandemic has been its ability to put a spotlight on everything that is wrong with education. We’ve long known that our education system was created in another century for another way of life. Our factory model of education was conceived during the industrial revolution; however, our workforce and our

In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care, Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric, one-off events and practices to create more authentic, engaging collaborations with caregivers. Instead of asking what families can do to support school

At EF, we work every day to help people better understand one another, which is why we recently spoke with Dr. Deborah Plummer about racism and allyship.

The Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board shares what they’ve learned as they’ve worked for justice in schools.

Accountability is a keystone of racial equity work. Accountability, as used in this website, refers to creating processes and systems that are designed to help individuals and groups to be held in check for their decisions and actions and for whether the work being done reflects and embodies racial justice principles. Accountability in racial equity work is about constantly checking the work against a set of questions: How is the issue being defined? Who is defining it? Who is this work going to benefit if it succeeds? Who will benefit if the work does not succeed? How are risks distributed among the stakeholders? How will a group know if its plan has accounted for risks and unintended consequences for different racial and ethnic groups? What happens if people pull out before the goals are met? Who anointed the people and groups being relied on for the answers to these questions? Who else can answer these questions to guide the work?

Words and their multiple uses reflect the tremendous diversity that characterizes our society. Indeed, universally agreed upon language on issues relating to racism is nonexistent. In this way, the quality of dialogue and discourse on race can be enhanced.

A bit more on this #MonotropismQuestionnaire thing.I’ve been emphasising that the new quiz is NOT an autism assessment not bc I’m making an academic point or bc I’m trying to be overly precise, but because I believe that there can be harm at this stage from using it that way.— Sonny Hallett (@scrappapertiger) July 23, 2023

Important thread on our recently published (open access) monotropism questionnaire. In a nutshell: monotropism is super interesting and important……but our questionnaire is NOT a new way to classify who is / isn’t autistic. https://t.co/VsXhQIiPXh— Sue Fletcher-Watson (@SueReviews) July 23, 2023

I love that so many people are getting excited about the Monotropism Questionnaire, but I really wish people would stop calling it an "autism assessment".I hope that it can be used to inform future autism assessments, but that's not what it is and it also needs further testing.— @ferrous@neurodifferent.me (@MxOolong) July 22, 2023

The experience of stigma by autistic people is relatively understudied, despite contributing to a range of poor outcomes and having an overarching impact on well-being. The current review of the literature synthesizes research to determine what is currently ...

Main points from the Outdoor Accessibility Guidance by Sensory Trust.

Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience various sleep problems. Sleep problems co-occur in a bidirectional relationship with ASD core symptoms and behavioral problems. However, studies on how these three factors are intricately linked to each other are limited. This m …

Autistic doctors are a “hidden minority” in hospitals and other health settings, according to an Irish hospital consultant whose new groundbreaking study h...

Sensory experiences create meaning and provide longer-lasting memories. Find out how we use a sensory approach to work with people with a range of needs.