Experts estimate ‘accounting of the harm that was done’ by 200 years of chattel slavery would be US$2tn in damages Britain stole 25 million years of life and labour through slavery in Barbados, according to new research by a team of international experts. Their report concludes that Barbados’s population of African descent have suffered damages estimated at up to US$2tn (£1.5tn) from 200 years of chattel slavery. Continue reading...

Researchers are looking into why patients can still have a powerful response to music even as their memory fades.

Macarthur MP Mike Freelander believes the multi-partisan support for restricting gambling advertising means the reforms will "get there" eventually.

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

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A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.

Previous research indicates that autistic employees are less susceptible to the bystander effect than nonautistic employees. This paper considers whether the...

This feasibility study explored literacy instruction for children with autism in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage during the COVID-19 pandemic.Fifty-nine autistic children (5–12 years) partici...

As school returns, we look at a scheme that pairs teenagers with toddlers from a local nursery in a bid to help increase school attendance.

Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies

We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...

Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

This project will investigate whether certain features of GCSE examination papers might explain the lower average attainment of neurodivergent students in England.

Calgary Parks Foundation broke ground Thursday in southeast Calgary on plans to build Canada's first-ever dementia inclusive park.

This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to...

Scientific Reports - Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life

The writing framework outlines a common approach to teaching writing based on evidence and existing good practice.

Although the field of autism intervention has strived to identify evidence-based practices, translating these interventions into real-world settings remains a significant challenge. This gap partic...

What if you could journey back in time to hear world-leading neuroscientists present the ideas that shaped today's brain science? A new open-access initiative led by researchers from the Donders Insti...

Public childcare network is a win for everyone – kids, parents and the government, and the Quebec model is a shining example

Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body A cure for HIV could be a step closer after researchers found a new way to force the virus out of hiding inside human cells. The virus’s ability to conceal itself inside certain white blood cells has been one of the main challenges for scientists looking for a cure. It means there is a reservoir of the HIV in the body, capable of reactivation, that neither the immune system nor drugs can tackle. Continue reading...

Purpose: Collaboration between teachers and speech-language pathologists is essential for supporting diverse learners, particularly those with co...

All-class therapy sessions don’t help, and may even make matters worse. The evidence shows we need different solutions, says Dr Lucy Foulkes, an academic psychologist at Oxford University