Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.
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Author
- Abs S. Ashley
- Adam Fare
- Aimee Fletcher
- Aisling Sheehy
- Ann Memmott
- Antonia Aluko
- Callum Stephen Howes
- Cassandra Lovelock
- Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar
- Charli Clement
- Claire
- Cos Michael
- Darren O'Reilly
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno
- El Dewar
- Elise Guthrie Stirling
- Emily Lees
- Emily Katy
- Emily Wooden
- Emma Nielson
- Grace Lee
- Guest Contributor
- Harriet Axbey
- Hat Porter
- Helen Edgar
- Iqra Babar
- Jill Corbyn
- Kai Schweizer
- Katrine Callander
- Kay Louise Aldred
- Krysia Waldock
- Kyra Thompson
- Lizzie Smith
- Lucy Gilbert
- Meena Kumari
- Molly Anderton
- Nick Ransom
- Reesha Zahir
- Remie Colledge
- Rhiannon Williams
- Rod Landman
- Rose Matthews
- Sarah Douglas
- Sarah Boon
- Sascha Bellamy
- Sophie Broadgate
- Stop Oxevision
- Thomas Barnett
- Tina
- Trauma Geek
- Warda Farah
Navigating my relationship with change
A Guest Contributor shares reflections on their experience of change as an Autistic person with ADHD, and explores how they can be supported to navigate life’s inevitable changes.
Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability Research—What’s New in April
In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott explores a wider array of research, showcasing and reflecting upon some of the latest papers on Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability.
When Your Challenge Becomes Your Calling: My ADHD Journey
Guest Contributor, Dr Darren O’Reilly, shares his unique personal and professional perspectives as a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, Founder of ADHDdegree and person with lived experience of ADHD.
4Q4: Dr Virginia Carter Leno on disordered eating, Autism and ADHD
Four questions for Dr Virginia Carter Leno, fellow at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, and co-author of a new research paper (published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal) that investigates the research priorities of autistic people and people with ADHD who have lived experience of disordered eating.
Help! I can’t hear without my subtitles
Cassie Lovelock explores her appreciation for closed captions/subtitles as an ADHD-er in this shared love letter.
Separating innate traits from distress symptoms: a neuro-affirming definition of ADHD
A neurodivergent-affirming definition of ADHD from Trauma Geek, focusing on the innate traits of the ADHD neurotype when separated from the distress symptoms caused by conflict with an inhospitable society.
“Don’t get hysterical”: Capitalism, Patriarchy and ADHD
Aisling Sheehy examines the intersection of capitalism and patriarchy in the historical and current marginalisation of women’s health, with a particular focus on diagnoses of ADHD.
4 Questions For: Autism and Ageing project (MICRA)
Team members from a MICRA-funded research project on autism and ageing answer four key questions from NdC Founder & Director, Jill Corbyn. MICRA is the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (University of Manchester).
To disclose, or not to disclose?
Warda Farah examines four key aspects of a difficult question faced by many Neurodivergent individuals: whether or not to disclose their diagnoses at their place of work.
“No attendance score is worth your suffering”
Cassie Lovelock makes the case for why the UK government’s ‘drive to improve school attendance’ will have detrimental impacts on neurodivergent children, young people, and their families.
- ABA
- abuse
- accessible
- ADHD
- adults
- advocacy
- affirming
- aging
- assessment
- autism
- autistic parents
- black autistic
- building design
- burnout
- childhood
- children
- co production
- coercive control
- communication
- community
- culture
- depression
- Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
- diagnosis
- disability
- dyslexia
- eating disorders
- education
- empathy
- employment
- environment
- ethics
- family
- friendships
- GCC Summit 2023
- gender
- government
- grooming
- guidance
- health
- healthcare
- holiday
- housing
- human rights
- identity
- illness
- inclusion
- inpatient
- intersectionality
- joy
- language
- late diagnosed
- learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- lived experience
- masking
- medicalisation
- meltdown
- mental health
- monotropism
- mothers
- nervous system
- newly diagnosed
- NHS
- online
- pain
- parents
- peer support
- play
- psychiatric care
- PTSD
- quality of life
- race
- racism
- reasonable adjustments
- relationships
- research
- resources
- routine
- school
- self diagnosis
- self regulation
- sensory environment
- sensory overwhelm
- sensory processing
- services
- sexism
- special interests
- spirituality
- stimming
- stress
- suicide
- support
- therapy
- training
- trauma
- trauma-informed
- women
- workplace
- young people
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