Author of No Matter What (Autism) & SILENCE SPEAKS (Autism Care through Art & Poetic verse) Author, Poet & Artist
London
Joined October 2009
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They can start with having Neurodiversity training amongst themselves and their staff, as standard. As a result of a robust Neurodiversity awareness programme, neurodivergent individuals should engage on an individual basis to share their requirements. Everyone is different.
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Scientists identify overgrowth of key brain structure in babies who later develop autism – Patient Talk patienttalk.org/scientists-i…
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Are our schools failing 'neurodiverse' children, who feel their needs are not being met, drop out of school with depression and anxiety, and become isolated at home? Neurodiversity may be 15% of kids and includes autism, ADHD, dyspraxia, and dyslexia, etc bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-4…
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What does autism look like in girls? Would you be able to recognise it? Meet Saffron and her amazing parents recognising both the challenges (e.g., perfectionist thinking, and not taking turns) and the gifts (e.g., original thinking) of being autistic theguardian.com/global/video…
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A sectioned strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) flower shows anthers with a pair of pores at their tip – typical of buzz-pollinated flowers. You can hear bumblebees do just this on Arbutus flowers
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Autistic people look less at people's eyes. Using deep electrode EEG in 2 autistic people with epilepsy reveals that neurons in their amygdala show less electrical activity when looking at the eye region of the face compared to typical people with epilepsy spectrumnews.org/opinion/vie…
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Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation dlvr.it/QKBRgH
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#TBT REVIEW - The bowel and beyond: the #enteric nervous system in #neurologicaldisorders, currently FREE for ltd time! go.nature.com/2AVWo8U #ENS #gutbrainaxis
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Autistics identified early receive lower teacher ratings in kindergarten than autistics identified too late (per usual biases) bit.ly/2jCPXl7 Ontario data
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Read for FREE: Special Issue ‘The dynamic and vulnerable teenage brain’ from Birth Defects Research. bit.ly/2B5DUU9
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"34 of the total 305 were known to have died by the study’s closure" bit.ly/2BDvh4s follow-up of autistics to mean age 35 (range 22-51)
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How a 7 yr old boy, missing most of his visual cortex since 2 weeks old, can still see just fine. An MRI scan reveals a plausible explanation: neuroplasticity bigthink.com/paul-ratner/thi…
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8 year old boy rescued after being under the ice for 30 minutes: A wonderful reminder of the goodness in humanity bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-cana…
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Happy new year. Here is the new film of Josh's adventures during 2017. Thank you @kaceyainsworth for being a part of it. @JanTregelles
@ciarale01 @AnnaKennedy1 @piratefm @CornwallLive @AutismEye @
youtu.be/vxJPMAUsQTc – at Truro, England
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Why do autistic people need to write about autism? autismdailynewscast.com/auti…
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Is there a region in the cerebellum (the right CRUS I) that functions differently to cause both the social diffculties and the atypical repetitive behaviours in autism? New evidence from the mouse to the human spectrumnews.org/news/study-…
