As school begins in England, periodic reminder that schools which choose to reward 100% attendance without equally rewarding disabled children who cannot achieve this for disability related reasons may well be breaching the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act

starinhereye.wordpress.com/2019/04/24/res… Yes indeed. Seen this done a lot, in some settings. Well worth a read re people with an intellectual disability (learning disability) and the pointless, repetitive questions they're expected to answer on command. It's not OK.

Autistic grief is not like neurotypical grief: "Every brain only has so much space in which to process information, and if a very large part of that is consumed with emotions, it can easily result in failures of other areas." By Karla Fisher, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2012/08/autist…

20 children were lost in CAMHS inpatient units between 2019 and 2022. I make the case that this issue needs to be taken more seriously. emergentdivergence.com/2024/09/04/cam… #ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #CAMHS #CAMHSinCrisis #MentalHealth #neurodiversity #neurodivergent

Our new paper Autism In Adulthood found much consensus against normalization & for well-being, societal reform & supportive environments in autism community: findings were robust to closeness to autistics w/ intellectual disabilities & nonspeaking autistics. liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

One of the disabled children we advocate for is being placed in a SHED—yes, you read that correctly—a shed on his school playground in England. Starting tomorrow, he will be in this shed. Shockingly, the school and others seem fine with this arrangement. Photos to come...

Can anyone recommend where to find actually Autistic, online tutors who teach students GCSE English & maths? There are many Autistic students who learn so much better with Autistic teachers ⚡Please share this post to reach more people ⚡ #AskingAutistics #HomeEd

“The Street Foundation gave £250,000 to the New Culture Forum, a think-tank that suggested earlier this year that abolishing the Equality Act was one of the ‘10 election pledges that can save Britain’.” goodlaw.social/mfk4