Tag: neurodivergence
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Announcement: Joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education
I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education as an individual mentor. GROVE provides online Autistic-led mentoring, groups and programmes for young people in the UK. Very excited to be a part of this wonderful organisation! You can find out more about GROVE on their page. 🙂 And below is the cool…
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In-Service Days Training
With some schools in Scotland reopening this week, I was fortunate to be asked to deliver some staff training during their in-service days at the beginning of the week. It has been an invigorating start to the new term! On Monday, I ran a session on Autistic people’s sensory experiences to the teaching staff at…
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Over 200 Copies Sold! ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People’
We are delighted to have sold over 200 copies of our ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic people’ book within 3 weeks of publishing. Huge thank you again to everyone who has read it and sent us feedback or reviews. It means so much to me and Laura that this is resonating and hopefully it will…
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The Dangers of Pejorative Language
There remains a pervasive and deeply worrying use of pejorative language in society when discussing Autistic people. Of course, this has originated from the early observations of Autistic people almost a century ago, where clinicians made observations of young children displaying distress and judged how they measured against non-autistic people. Despite how much time has…
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Nominated for National Diversity Awards 2024
I received a lovely email yesterday notifying me that I have been nominated for this years National Diversity Awards! The award I am up for is Positive Role Model for Disability. Massive thank you to those who nominated me! 🙂 If you would like to vote for me and pass this on, I have included…
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Training with Better Lives Partnership
I had a great day yesterday in Dumfries and Galloway delivering a training session to the fantastic Better Lives Partnership. This was my first time facilitating a session in-person through AUsome Training (an organisation in Ireland I often work with). A lovely way to celebrate Weird Pride Day! The session focused on ‘Exploring Neurodivergent Learning’…
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A Few Book Recommendations
These are a few recommendations of books by Autistic authors and illustrators that I’ve read over the past week. Please consider supporting their work if you are able to. Links to these are below. 🙂 Gregory Tino has an amazing series of books titled ‘Autism and I’ exploring their experiences as a non-speaker. There is…
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Autistic People can Only Thrive as Autistic People
This was originally one of my first posts and images I shared on my Facebook page last year. I thought I would publish it here as well given how important this is to understanding and supporting Autistic people. One of my guiding principles is that we can only thrive as Autistic people. Changing us to…
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Autistic Pride Day
Today is Autistic Pride Day. This is a day that was first held back in 2005 by Autistic people. Gwen Nelson, who invented Autistic Pride Day, is also trans, which Autistic people are more likely to identify as. It is a day that was founded to combat stigma and reframe the pathologising narrative in society,…
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Striving for a Better World
As we move into a new year, let’s make further steps towards creating a world where Autistic and other Neurodivergent people are valued as being part of human diversity rather than a pathology to fix. To embrace deviations from neuronormativity rather than to treat them as broken or sick. A world that identifies our experiences…
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