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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a complex genetic architecture involving contributions from both de novo and inherited variation. Few studies ha...

On July 26, 2023, the Americans with Disabilities Act turned 33, but disabled people still face exclusion and discrimination.

Nick Covington: New school procedures for student nicknames will inconvenience many parents but could severely harm LGBTQ kids.

Antoinette Monks was diagnosed with autism and ADHD at 71, while Debra Brisch got her diagnosis at 68. Both say it was life-changing

If we want to truly understand autism, we must expand the zone of the researchable autistic, writes Hari Srinivasan.

How we measured racial identity among Hispanics The survey used the following four questions to assess the racial identity of Latinos: What is your race

TikTokers are getting excited about a new autism assessment tool - but the monotropism questionnaire isn't one. Free2BMe's workshop on supporting people through autism and ADHD assessments gives you accurate information about assessment tools so you can better advise clients on useful self-assessmen

Social interactions are postulated as a crucial part of socioemotional development and significant outcomes in life (Bauminger et al., 2003; Healy et al., 2013). There are different types of social interactions that we experience during our life, like...

The results from the Monotropism Questionnaire could help validate people's feelings. Knowing they have a monotropic mind could help people give themselves permission to recharge by engaging in their monotropic interests. This would enable them to enter a restorative 'flow' state to reduce and help prevent burnout and mental health crises.

The strange history of a fake “church” selling bleach as a cure-all and the activists who fought back to stop them.

Journal of Population Economics - Using US panel data on young workers, we demonstrate that those who receive performance pay are more likely to consume alcohol and illicit drugs. Recognizing that...

Radical Candor in schools can help address inequities. Our schools, despite our best efforts, are not meeting the needs of all learners.

By using Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework developed by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), teachers can create on-ramps, traffic patterns, and off-ramps that allow students to navigate their learning experience.

By Tesha Fritzgerald and Dr. Katie Novak Who Tells Our Story? Imagine you attended a professional development session on race and equity. Before the keynote took the stage, the event organizer was thrilled to have a district share the work that they were doing. The school district kicked off their presentation with a short video that highlighted their work around equity. Their reel dazzled the audience as they boasted about their inclusivity, policies, changes, and data mines – but there was o

Coming from a neurodiversity approach stressing ADHD as a cognitive difference rather than a cognitive deficit, the article aims to restory hyperactivity and at

Many White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice and hatred. However, racism can occur without conscious awareness or intent. When defined simply as differential evaluation or treatment based solely on race, regardless of intent, racism occurs far more frequently than most White people suspect. As intractable as it seems, racism in the workplace can be effectively addressed. Because organizations are small, autonomous entities that afford leaders a high level of control over norms and policies, they are ideal sites for promoting racial equity. Companies should move through the five stages of a process called PRESS: (1) Problem awareness, (2) Root-cause analysis, (3) Empathy, or level of concern about the problem and the people it afflicts, (4) Strategies for addressing the problem, and (5) Sacrifice, or willingness to invest the time, energy, and resources necessary for strategy implementation.

Creating culturally responsive and empowering classrooms distributes the teacher's traditionally held power and releases students' power to shine.

Students explore the ethical considerations of AI-generated art and the stereotypes and biases they can produce. | A free resource hosted at Human Restoration Project on progressive education.

EduColor mobilizes advocates nationwide around issues of educational equity, agency, and justice. Tomorrow, there'll be more of us!

Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students

Autism is often conceptualised as a neurocognitive style that leaves a person entirely more concerned with their needs than the needs of others. Autistic people, in particular (when compared to attitudes around non-Autistic people), are often positioned as lacking emotional and cognitive empathy. However, for some Autistic people, their experience of empathy can be so

Can you really have hyper empathy and feel too much? And why would you have hyper empathy in the first place? How to get help for hyper empathy

With the rise of place-based models of education, credence needs to be given to epistemological traditions that curate individual understandings of and relations to the social world (i.e., places)....

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...