I ve explored (extensively) the issues with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services ( #CAMHS ) in England. The particular focus of my writing has been their mistreatment of #Autistic children & young people 👇🏻
#autism e #autism #ActuallyAutistic
#children
emergentdivergence.com/2023/09/25/cam…

If society spent as much energy on finding practical solutions to the sustainability crisis as it does virtue signalling on diet, we might get somewhere.

As it is, too many people are wasting time we don’t have. If it weren’t so serious it’d be funny.
theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

‘This is different from picky eating. This is a disorder’

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder is when someone avoids certain foods, limits their intake or does both.

Krupa Thakrar Padhy spoke to Lisa, a mother whose son has the eating disorder, and Professor Sandeep Ranote from Beat ⬇️

We explore the new, controversial term 'profound autism' and its implications within the autistic community 💬

We touch upon high/low functioning, the need for another term and its negative connotations 🎧

@Jo3Grace

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#autism #podcast

How do schools in Europe manage, with no uniform etc etc, - the students can’t all be marauding unemployable rude ignorant thugs - asking for a friend who’s children are doing exceptionally well in a state funded school in Europe

What autistic people really need…

One month of #GirlUnmasked being out in the world and what a WHIRLWIND it has been. Some reflections… 🧵💜

What is it we’ve people pretending they are in danger at protests??? She’s calling the police saying she’s scared, while her dog is totally calm, someone walks past with a flipping yoga mat!! She could literally walk away 🤷🏼‍♀️

Aie aie aie aie... #autism #katharinebirbalsingh #education #teacher #edchat #edutwitter #StirringDrama

Mad as a Natter Katharine Birbalsingh abc7news.com/uc-berkeley-ca…

I've just read a response from a ' #SEND ' teacher claiming that their job is to teach Autistic children to 'function'

No, that is not your job

Ever

Education needs a seriously reckoning. Teachers need support to be informed & reflective

And the normative bollocks needs binned

Blimey - looks like Tom Bennett is have a mare down under

I don’t think we pay enough attention to the power of environment design.

Our surroundings shape our behaviour.

We should think and obsess over how we design them.

When I was working in Primary schools under a Labour government all our pupils got a chance to learn a musical instrument.
Under the Tories we are just grateful the buildings haven’t collapsed yet.

Shoutout to the staff at ASDA tonight who saw me tic and decided that it meant I must have stolen. They kept me for 45 mins whilst they ‘made calls’ to see if #TouretteSyndrome existed. All I wanted was coriander and I ended up trying to prove my diagnosis to strangers? 🤯

“If classes are being taken by teaching assistants they can’t be supporting disabled children & the highest level of teaching isn't available to the pupils who need it most.” Disabled Children's Partnership's Stephen Kingdom on LBC Matthew Wright #SEND
Listen back at 2:04
globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/lo…

It is a lost discussion with some teachers #edchat #edutwitter

Barry Smith If a wheelchair user could not access parts of your school, would you just tell them they need to adapt? If a blind student cannot read the materials do they just have to get on with it? Why then should no adjustments be made for students with autism, ADHD, or SEMH needs?

People who do not currently work at a school have an equal right to offer an opinion about behaviour in school as those who currently work at that school. Especially if information about that school is made public to promote discussion. Discuss

#SaturdayBrunch

Warming 🆙 with Novak Djokovic 🇷🇸