Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.
Month
- December 2024
- November 2024
- October 2024
- September 2024
- August 2024
- July 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- April 2024
- March 2024
- February 2024
- January 2024
- December 2023
- November 2023
- October 2023
- September 2023
- August 2023
- July 2023
- June 2023
- May 2023
- April 2023
- March 2023
- February 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
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
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno
- El Dewar
- Elise Guthrie Stirling
- Emily Lees
- Emily Katy
- Grace Lee
- Guest Contributor
- Harriet Axbey
- Hat Porter
- Helen Edgar
- Iqra Babar
- Jill Corbyn
- Kai Schweizer
- Katrine Callander
- Kay Louise Aldred
- Krysia Waldock
- Lucy Gilbert
- Meena Kumari
- Molly Anderton
- Nick Ransom
- Reesha Zahir
- Rhiannon Williams
- Rod Landman
- Rose Matthews
- Sarah Douglas
- Sarah Boon
- Sophie Broadgate
- Thomas Barnett
- Tina
- Trauma Geek
- Warda Farah
Embracing alone time in the festive season
Festivities and holidays can be extremely difficult for Autistic and otherwise Neurodivergent people for a variety of reasons; with the way they cause so much change and differences in sensory input and an increase in social situations. For me, I am wholeheartedly of the belief that we would all be happier people during the festive season, Neurodivergent or not, if we allowed ourselves to have more alone time.
Autism Research—What’s New in November 2024
In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott PgC MA picks out some of the current big debates on Autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
‘Meet us halfway’—better communication between mental health inpatient staff and Autistic service-users
In this blog, a Guest Contributor shares suggestions, derived from their own lived experience of mental health inpatient services, for how staff can develop better relationships and improve their communication with Autistic services users.
Autism Research—What’s New in July
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
Autism Research—What’s New in February
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
Bonus ITAKOM Blog
The inaugural It Takes All Kinds of Minds conference was held in Edinburgh in mid March 2023. Attracting around a thousand international participants at the venue and via virtual technology, the two days encompassed around 50 main talks and close to 100 smaller ‘poster’ presentations.
Here, I will consider a few of the presentations
- ABA
- ableism
- abuse
- accessible
- ADHD
- adults
- advocacy
- affirming
- aging
- assessment
- autism
- autistic parents
- black autistic
- body image
- 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
- ethics
- friendship
- friendships
- GCC Summit 2023
- gender
- grooming
- guidance
- health
- healthcare
- holiday
- housing
- human rights
- identity
- illness
- inclusion
- inpatient
- interests
- intersectionality
- joy
- language
- late diagnosed
- learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- lived experience
- masking
- medicalisation
- mental health
- monotropism
- mothers
- nervous system
- newly diagnosed
- NHS
- online
- pain
- parents
- peer support
- play
- psychiatric care
- PTSD
- race
- racism
- reasonable adjustments
- relationships
- research
- resources
- retirement
- 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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