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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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