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Recognising and understanding that a child might be autistic is an important first step in the autism diagnostic pathway. For many families, this process involves working alongside school staff and, ....

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What does it mean to live at the intersection of autism, physical disability, trauma, and resilience? In Autism and Physical Disability, Wenn B. Lawson shares a deeply personal account of late-diagnos...

Research that seeks to develop and apply a more creative toolkit of methods to enable a range of voices to be included in autism research.

Background: Play is important for mental health and well-being. Descriptions of autistic play have typically focused on “deficits” and are based on comparisons to neurotypical “norms”. According to…

Language is powerful. It reflects and shapes our understanding of the difficulties people face, the paradigms in which researchers and clinicians conduct research and practice while also influencing p...

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This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

To many autistic people, the puzzle piece represents stigma, exclusion and a harmful push to make them conform.

All play is ok! There is no right way to play! All play is ok! There is no right way to play! To embrace Autistic play is to embrace the theory of monotropi ...

This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...

Drama is a subject through which pupils can explore and develop their social learning. Previous research into drama-based pedagogy has predominantly centred on outcomes that benchmark Autistic social....

Purpose of Review Inclusive research practices are important for neurodevelopmental studies, facilitating the involvement of community members throughout the research process. Highlighting this value,...

Autistic youth are more likely to experience both anxiety and depression than their nonautistic peers, yet treatment options are extremely limited. Cl…

Hiring processes often unintentionally disadvantage neurodivergent candidates by expecting neuronormative performances without due scrutiny of their merits. We offer reflections as a neurodiverse rese...

Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

The Collaboration For Comics And Autism study has been organised by University of Cambridge experts.

Repetitive, self-stimulatory behaviors (“stimming”) are a hallmark characteristic of autism. Stimming is thought to aid in self-regulation, but autistic perspec...

Major reforms to SEND system kicked off with £740 million capital investment to create more specialist places in mainstream schools