“When we are assumed to be incapable of understanding language, no effort is then made to provide us access to robust, language-based AAC that would allow us to prove otherwise.” Jordyn Zimmerman on SLPs as communication gatekeepers, at CommunicationFIRST:

communicationfirst.org/slps-as-aac-ga… #autism

For ICU patients, we use things like touch and eye contact to show that we care. We come up close to patients, we chat and make small talk…

But for some autistic patients this increases stress and paradoxically worsens their experience of our care

Read more here 👇🏽

The latest paper from my PhD is now online! We comprehensively tested the psychometric properties of the @AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure and assessed its utility as a screening tool for #AutisticBurnout doi.org/10.1002/aur.31…
@OTARC Amanda Richdale

Connections between #LongCovid & #Hypermobility members only webinar and Patron BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles
🗓️19th May
⏰from 3.30pm BST
💻online via Zoom
First join as a member here: tinyurl.com/yabekyzu
👉Book here: tinyurl.com/5n7dbtfv
#EDS #HSD #hypermobilityAwareness #dizzy

Weaponised heterogeneity only harms the most vulnerable autistic people

'Autistic people with the greatest challenges and support needs benefit from autistic-led research, when those caring for them are open to autistic community wisdom and scholarship'
spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpo…

Some of the many speakers for the #NATPmentalhealth conference, including those with lived experience 👏

annafreud.org/training/healt…

Alexis Quinn Alexis Quinn Unbroken is an extraordinary woman...a fierce advocate and a wonderful friend. Every (mental) health care professional should read her moving and very real book 'Unbroken: Learning to Live Beyond Diagnosis.' It powerful and humbling for all of us who were…

Thank you Alexis Quinn Unbroken for sharing your appalling experiences with Victoria Derbyshire & for all your work promoting change 👏

Alexis is speaking tomorrow 30th April at the #NATPmentalhealth conference alongside Ann Memmott PgC MA 🌈 (She/They) Elaine Mcgreevy AT-Autism 👇

annafreud.org/training/healt…

We're proud signatories of the Disability Employment Charter disabilityemploymentcharter.org/signatories

If the Government wants to support more disabled people into work, then instead of its hostile 'sicknote culture' rhetoric, it should listen to disabled people and support these recommendations.

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'lack of diversity within camouflaging literature has amplified the voices of White autistic women, while marginalizing women of color...unmasking is a privilege for White autistic women, but not for autistic women with intersecting identities.'
liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

The Presidents Project Committee of MWF need you!
Share our survey on membership and bullying as widely as you can and then discuss the results at our conference on the 11th May
Prof Scarlett McNally Professor Farah Bhatti OBE Dr Rachel Clarke

forms.gle/FBijqxCc545u3A…

medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/news-events/co…

Thank you Sam Porter for a great & thought provoking presentation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Dean’s Grand Round 👏

Huge thanks also to the person kindly sharing their neurodivergent lived experience and all the speakers & hosts

If you're a frontline worker struggling with stress/burnout, do come along to this free workshop tomorrow night. You can turn your camera off/be anonymous. EFT is a NICE recognised therapy.
Link to register 👇 Spread the word x
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thank you Conor Davidson for all your hard work

Neither autism nor any co-occurring mental health conditions should be missed, or assumed to ‘just be part of autism’
Equitable access & autism adapted management needed too as you’ve said before

rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-featu…

NHS Practitioner Health Medical Director Dr Zaid Al-Najjar (Zaid (زيد)) has written an opinion piece for The BMJ on how healthcare professionals deserve support services tailored to their specific needs.

Read the full piece here:bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Frontline19…

I spoke to Saima Iqbal for Science News about my career, how I think we should be doing Autism research, and how my Wellcome fellowship allows me to do lovely participatory Autism research.

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #ActuallyAutistic

sciencenews.org/article/aimee-…