April 2026 Resources Round-up

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Children and Parenting

Sienna explains the harm that can be caused when telling kids that disabilities are superpowers

Liz Evans and Ged Flynn discuss how to prevent suicide in young people

Elly Chapple and Libby Hill explore the realities families face when navigating support for Disabled children

Alice Running rounds up projects that challenge parent-carer blame in autism services

Zoe Giles on preparing for mental health appointments

Jess Garner and Tanya Adkin discuss young people’s experiences of Autistic joy

Ann Memmott explores the experiences of Autistic grandparents

Mike Karasinski and Philip Winterbottom share their experiences as AuDHD fathers

Rishi Kaushal and Libby Hill discuss speech and language delay from a parental perspective

Kristy Forbes explores why children question authority

Laura Hellfeld shares advocacy language for talking to professionals about dyspraxia


Education

Reflecting on what safety means in schools

Maciej Matejko shares tips on starting university as an Autistic student

Claire Ivy Waters on how Neurodivergent children can teach us to broaden the spectrum of education and forest schools can be made more inclusive


Apraxia and Non-speakers

David Kaufer and Barry Prizant discuss those who try to stop non-speakers accessing their preferred modes of communication

Dana Johnson on understanding motor loops

Tiffany Hammond looks at how science can be used as institutional gatekeeping to deny communication

Joyner Emerick and Shubha Balabaer discuss access needs as a paradigm shift

Dr Jaime Hoerricks on when speech is coerced


Neurodiversity Paradigm Exploration

Dr Chloe Farahar looks at those Neurodiversity Celebration Week often ignores and what neurodiversity actually means

Sonny Jane Wise explains why they dislike the ‘neuro’ part of neurodivergent

A new community project is inviting people to join in Neuroqueering Deluze

Dr Nick Walker discusses understanding neurodivergence and neuroexpansiveness


Neurodivergent Cultures and Ways of Being

The Plural Association explains co-consciousness and co-fronting

Scottish Ethnic Minority Autistics CIC have published Ramadan Through An Autistic Lens 2nd Edition

Kristy Forbes shares a PDA perspective on systems, sovereignty and what it means to be free

Evaleen Whelton says we do not mask “our autism”

Helen Edgar on re-worlding neurodiversity: Monotropism, ecological belonging and neuroqueer futures

Jesse Meadows asks if ADHDers can form habits


Wellbeing and Neurodivergence

Ayanna Sanaa Davis explores white women’s ableism toward Black Autistic women

Kieran Rose explains how it’s impossible not to drop lots of balls as a Disabled person

Viv Dawes outlines the role of stigma in Autistic burnout

Dr Mona Delahooke discusses her traumatic brain injury, coma, and the power of co-regulation in healing

Catherine Asta and Sophie Cartledge explore perimenopause and late-discovered autism and ADHD

Pete Wharmby discusses some common things that can cause anxiety for Autistic people

Kristy Forbes explores projection, privilege, and what we can’t afford to feel

David Gray-Hammond on recovering from Autistic burnout through connection

Rolondo Talbott shares the daily maths of being Black and Autistic

Catherine Flynn delves into rejection sensitivity dysphoria


Neurodivergent-Affirming Practice

Louise Lucas explores self-disclosure, visibility and vulnerability as a therapist

An open letter is demanding equality for Disabled UK counselling trainees

Neurodiversity-Affirming Occupational Therapy: Empowering Approaches to Foster Neurodivergent Participation Paperback by Dr Bryden Carlson-Giving is out this month

Louise Lucas has published free resources for counsellors working with Neurodivergent people

Lucy Gilbert outlines SPACE: An autism–informed framework

Kay Louise Aldred explains why an alternative to Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is needed

Bridgette Hamstead looks at the evidence base for interventions

Myira Khan explains why empathy means nothing without social context


Work and Employment

Antonia Aluko explains how the SPACE framework helped her wellbeing at work as a late discovered AuDHDer

Courtney Hall explores what you can do if you’re Neurodivergent and being harassed at work

Rolondo Talbott on the policing of Black and Brown Neurodivergent bodies in the workplace


Neurodivergent Health

Bridgette Hamstead looks at the links between autism, ADHD, and developing dementia

Dr Jaime Prout outlines what the research tells us about ME/CFS and its management

Dr Talia explains why chronic illness acceptance isn’t giving up

Kelly covers the impacts of Long Covid

Marion McLaughlin shares their experience of surgery as an Autistic person


Research

Ann Memmott rounds up March’s autism, neurodivergence, support needs and inclusion research

Melanie Heyworth et al have published research into how people parent Autistically

Dr Steven Kapp outlines the sensory-movement differences that underpin autism

Children share their experiences and insights into growing up Autistic

Dr Gemma Williams discusses the relationship between neurodivergence and chronic pain and fatigue

Neurodivergent podcasters explore what podcasting makes possible that other forms of research and advocacy cannot


Use of Language and Pathologisation

Kristy Forbes explores neurodivergence, power, and the colonisation of lived experience

Louise Elliman responds to the publication of The Scale of the Spectrum

David Kaufer explains how the independence myth puts Disabled people on trial

Dr Lanza highlights the harm that can be caused by using the term ‘neurospicy’

Sonny Jane Wise outlines how ‘neurodivergent’ and ‘neurodevelopmental condition’ are not interchangeable or synonymous

Lovette Jallow on how “You don’t look Disabled” exposes a structural misunderstanding of what disability is.

Jennifer asks why so many people believe the perception of heightened intelligence is a measure of value, worth and utility

Sonny Jane Wise shares hard truths and unpopular opinions about ‘neuroqueer’ and ‘neurodivergent’

Dr Chloe Farahar explains why autism is not a spectrum – but not for the reasons you may have heard

Sonny Jane Wise highlights how dictionaries get the definition of ‘neurodivergent’ wrong

Dr Ludmila N. Praslova explains epistemic injustice and how others overrule Autistic self-knowledge

Pete Wharmby asks if ‘diagnosis’ is the right word for autism


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