2-year Post-doc on social inclusion & social interaction.

Anglia Ruskin Uni (Cambridge), working with the excellent Mick Finlay on (among other things) involving people with learning disabilities.

More here:
jobs.aru.ac.uk/vacancy/post-d…

Any neurodiversity-affirming form of clinical practice will need to be supported by a robust evidence base. The latest from Kristen Bottema-Beutel and #ASHASIG1 advises clinicians and researchers on research design and reporting on.asha.org/48JuTjU Boston College Lynch School UNC-Chapel Hill VUMCHearSpeech

Fantastic 'tutorial' article from Kristen Bottema-Beutel et al., which tackles issues around how 'there is little consensus on the level of methodological rigor that a study should have in order to consider it a source of evidence supporting an intervention' pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.10…

Autism Researchers will be like 'You're not really autistic, you have a PhD.' And then encourage parents to read books by Temple Grandin.

'The quality of much of our current evidence is poor... A recent review of Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for autism castigated the evidence base & its dependence on single-case studies'--which feature sky-high risk of bias, disregard of harms etc acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jc… free

We're so excited for this search! Assistant Professor in Early Childhood and Human Development. Great colleagues, amazing students, and the beach is 12 minutes away.
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08684

CommunicationFIRST Board Chair Jordyn Zimmerman and ED Tauna Szymanski had a great time meeting Pres. Biden and VP Harris while celebrating the ADA and Section 504 (and the start of #AAC Awareness Month) at the The White House yesterday! #AAC InHighPlaces #BecauseCommunicationIsAHumanRight

People with disabilities are the experts of their own lives & we believe their experiences, knowledge, & wisdom should be centered in teacher education. I'm holding interviews & focus groups with disabled adults about their school experiences to help improve teacher ed programs.

We are recruiting PhD students (Fall 24) interested in the intersection of research & practice in communication sciences & disorders #CSD & special education #SPED at Vanderbilt University , TCU , San Diego State University with my amazing colleagues CHLLD Lab Dr. Alyson Abel (she/her) Melanie Schuele OSEP Scholars

RESEARCH FELLOW POSITIONS! 4-year posts! I'm looking for ethnographers, oral historians, community faciltators, innovative thinkers and passionate educators to join my team at the Department of Education, University of Oxford to explore Reparative Futures of Education. Spread the word! tinyurl.com/y9jmuhhb

'A growing body of research is pushing against that stereotype [of autistic people lacking empathy], finding that many autistic people yearn for human connections and community at least as much as their neurotypical peers.' By Steve Silberman, at Scientific American:

scientificamerican.com/article/autism…

Check out our findings re:$ incentives for spec. educators! We find sig effects but 'financial incentives can only offset the effects of spec. ed. teachers’ challenging working conditions. They cannot address the underlying issues that create these conditions in the first place.'

Our new open-access paper led by Hunter Dirac and Jay de la Garza comparing personality preferences in autistic and non-autistic audits is out now!

Findings challenge assumptions that certain social traits are the ideal for everyone. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

Check out my recent interview with CBS Boston on my recent research simulation intervention we are developing to support Black autistic youth experiencing depression. ⁦Boston College⁩ ⁦Level Up Lab⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦The Curtis Center⁩ cbsnews.com/boston/news/bo…

Call for papers!

📢 Special Issue on the Autistic Rights Movement and Social Model in Autism Research and Practice.

🗓️Deadline: December 15th

📰Editors Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, Amy Pearson, Damian Milton & Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist

❓Info: shorturl.at/kpsw2

Ed/SPED folks: Any recommendations for articles/chapters specifically focused on the logistical challenges inherent to school-based research (e.g., scheduling)?

🚨 New paper! 🚨
We asked parents of autistic young people (16-25) about the impact of recent(ish) reforms designed to support young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿& 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. Their response: ‘I can’t say that anything has changed’
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Just out, review of interventions to reduce stigma towards autistic people with strategies to help us collectively do stronger anti-stigma research.

Led by the stellar scholar So Yoon Kim, with Da-Yea Song, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, & me.

Paper available here: bit.ly/3roWy8V

I am accepting applications for PhD students! If you are interested in young children’s ethnic-racial identity, socialization, discrimination experiences, family, and promoting positive development & health, you would be a great fit! 🧵1/8

#NewBook out now! Our book examines social interaction through the lens of complexity, focusing on how participants establish and maintain shared understanding in multi-layered situations and settings. #EMCA link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… @palgrave @springernature emcawiki University of Oulu