Educational Psychologist. @UCL co-pro research on growing up with unidentified autism. Bereaved Mum & Co-Founder of @BabySTEPPsGib
Joined October 2018
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NASP recommend 1 school psychologist per 500 students in US -any UK-based recommendations? Looking at a workforce planning project... I believe current EP ratio in England is approx 1:3000? Appreciate any info/advice/signposting #ADayInTheLifeOfAnEP @DECPOfficial @AEPsychologists
Back after a long absence - been a challenging few months following the loss of my Mum after a long and difficult battle with cancer. Also recovering from the demands of completing my doctorate, working full-time and home-schooling. Good to be back and working on a manuscript 🤞
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I am particularly excited about this paper that just came out in @AutismAdulthood - great suggestions for anyone trying to avoid ableist language when discussing autism.
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72 years ago today, a truly radical idea became reality in Britain.
We must never give up on the principle that everyone - whatever their class, background or means - deserves access to world-class healthcare.
A thriving NHS keeps us healthy but it also makes us more equal.
To my DECPsy cohort: well done on successful course completion! 🎓 Pic symbolic of completing a doc in COVID times!
To my examiners @pandoragiles & Dr Ravi Das @UCLPALS huge tx for a stimulating discussion & recognising the contribution of my amazing coresearchers -
Go team! 🙌
And to my tutors @velouria66 & Dr Gavin Morgan @ucledpsych huge thanks for being brave with my risk-taking and for all your support and guidance - it's been a journey! Tx for accompanying and steering me in my tendency to take the long and winding road!
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This fantastic autistic PhD student is interested in hearing from autistic people who have been involved in participatory research.
She wants to see if what her home country of Canada can learn from us in the UK.
Please do share!
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Best advice ever for parents - aim for “good enough parenting” Donald Winnicott (1953) -never more pertinent than now! @AEPsychologists
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New paper on #Autism & PTSD symptoms, shows many experiences that autistic folk find traumatic are not recognised in DSM-5 PTSD criteria. These experiences are just as likely to lead to high PTSD symptoms. Change needed so no autistic person is denied PTSD DX and treatment! 1/2
When you have the privilege of informing the primary home learning curriculum for your LA and it's #AutismAwarenessWeek - celebrate #difference ❤🌈❤#RedInstead #Neurodiversity
[Image shows a student activity library with autism awareness task celebrating difference]
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Preparing session on anxiety, behaviour that challenges, de-escalation and low-arousal approaches as part of a whole day autism training at a mainstream school - what is the one thing school staff need to know? What's your best advice/top priority? #AskingAutistics #TwitterEPs
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Congrats to activists for ban on the torture of electric shocks as 'treatment' for people w/ disabilities (in name of self-injurious/aggressive behavior). Read more about fight to stop the shocks in this free book chapter by @smneumeier and @autistichoya: link.springer.com/chapter/10…
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Mine keep asking when they'll see more than just my forehead over the top of the laptop 🤯👩💻😓 #MummyOnAMission
My two-and-a-half year old kid just looked at the final draft of my PhD thesis and called it “Dada’s sad book” and if that isn’t the best description of a thesis ever, I don’t know what is @AcademicChatter
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Our research on self-identification suggests for most it started either by some1 suggesting it, or because of suspected/confirmed autism in a close friend/family member. Followed by intense research which often led to a sudden realisation, but sometimes a more gradual processing
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Higher rates of postnatal depression for autistic mothers. So important to provide better support in and after pregnancy cam.ac.uk/research/news/high…
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Preliminary findings from our research into transitioning to adulthood for individuals who have not yet been identified as autistic, shows that kind/understanding authority figures are one of the most prominent protective factors
Dear #edutwitter, particularly those of you in Mainstream Secondaries: our closed group is full of current crises for Yr7 girls, diagnosed #autistic and also awaiting assessment, who are absolutely breaking. Harming, not eating, in full blown panic mode, anxiety attacks 1/
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