I still can’t get over how I was admitted to a children’s mental health unit at sixteen and discharged three months later with a diagnosis of mixed personality disorder when my notes describe daily meltdowns and list my triggers as change, lack of routine, noise & strangers.

If you can't get up at 3 am and microwave yourself a burrito, you are living in an institution. The burrito test is used by disability advocates to find out if a particular facility is an institution.

DON'T MISS! Moving from Disorder to Difference: A Systematic Review of Recent Language Use in Autism Research by Summer Bottini et al finds that medical language continues to dominate autism research over neuro-affirming language NEW FREE to Sept 21 liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

What are alternatives to #ABA? 🧠 Support that is: Connection-focused ☑️ Child-lead ☑️ Self-directed ☑️ Interest-based ☑️ Low- demand ☑️ Trauma-informed ☑️ Neurodiversity-affirming ♾️ Acceptance and encouragement of: stimming, monotropic views, and deep dives. 💗

Free for now study: “a high proportion of hyper-empathic experiences…empathic responses to be overwhelming, or even distressing. These different experiences of empathy contrast with societal expectations of empathy, which often result in additional labor for autistic people”

Another well received talk to a group of doctors where I’m once again reminded that the most widespread association with autism is “lack of empathy” - and the surprise on hearing it’s a myth

New article led by the wonderful Dr Sarah Radev on autistic mothers' experiences of interacting with statutory services regarding their autistic children. With Prof Andrew R Thompson 💙 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

We are so excited to welcome the fantastic Dr Luke Beardon back for our December webinar on Thursday 7th December at 7pm. The webinar is about What Works for Autistic Adults. Luke Beardon's new book of the same title will be released on the same date. eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-works-f…

Training and supervision is provided in working within a neuro affirmative framework. Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent psychologists particularly welcome to apply!

We are hiring fully qualified psychologists to understand autism identification/assessment work on Saturdays in our clinic in Sandycove, Co. Dublin. Training and supervision provided in working in a progressive neurodiversity affirmative framework!

In the 2022 EUCAP survey, 92.2% of the people who'd received ABA therapy were against its use. It's time to ban nonconsensual ABA therapy. #BanABA #ABAisAbuse #BCBA #BehaviorAnalyst

This is a wonderful, kind, neuro affirmative place to work. Training provided!

The Children’s Clinic in Sandycove, Co. Dublin is hiring!

We are hiring!

We are hiring!

We are also hiring Occupational Therapists! Contact us at [email protected]

We are continuing to recruit for Occupational Therapists at The Children's Clinic Fully neuro-affirmative. Contact us at [email protected]