As part of our exam equity for neurodivergent students project, CRAE is now inviting UK-based centres with students taking Pearson GCSE examinations to take part in the next phase of this really important project.
If you work at a UK secondary school, could you help?
🧵 read on...
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"...all these attempts at Windows of Safety can’t be done alone, ... Autistics need not only to protect one another, which we do as fiercely as possible, but we need our allies, too, to help us create sanctuary"
Let's practice niche construction & build Cavendish Space
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There’s a good piece in The Conversation on the issues with ToM as a concept in describing autism (and it refs our Geoff Bird’s work)
Delighted to have our new paper, “Eliciting the views of autistic adolescents attending specialist schools on what friendships mean to them”, published in @journalautism.bsky.social! 🧵
#autres #openaccess
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Alongside the government's #SENDwhitepaper the The Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group have published their recommendations for mainstream education.
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So chuffed to have arrived at #A-Fest; amazing speakers lined up including the brilliant @petewharmby.com and @dean-beadle.bsky.social
It is!
All hail the sacrificial pancake; without your rubbery pile non other would be crispy.
Today, UCL turns 200. 🎉 For two centuries, our community has opened doors, challenged convention and pushed the boundaries of knowledge across every discipline. Thank you to everyone who’s been part of the UCL story, here’s to the next century. ✨
#UCL200 #LoveUCL
Today, Nate on VR and autism research was brilliant. Will post it on YouTube early next week.
Understanding neurodivergent attention profiles to harness learning:
An evening exploring how learners process information. For educators & inclusion professionals.
With drinks & nibbles.
Thursday, 26 Feb 2026
6:30pm
UCL IOE, London
Free
Sign-up
It really is very good.
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-... Latest research roundup for autism, neurodivergence generally, and the best/most debate-worthy of the papers. This one, a double issue Dec 25/Jan 26.
The studies span education, healthcare, social work, mental health, relationships, and the built environment.
New headphones with dynamic adjustment. Now noise cancellation stops when I start doop-dooing along.
I think it thinks I’m talking to folk.
I do this a lot.
I am very lucky to have lovely gems passed to me.
And I do like an ebook with wry comments in the footnotes.
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doi.org/10.1177/1362... Useful study - are we getting better at finding e.g. autistic women and girls? Yes.
408 people in Scotland.
The lifespan male-to-female ratio was approaching equal numbers of each. Do have a read of the detail. So much for 'it's a boy thing', eh?
That’s a must read…
Worth remembering:
“SEND is a construct.
It’s a convenient fiction. And it’s a neatly-boxed label designed to solve a problem the education system created, and refuses to take responsibility for.”
TY @kieranrose.bsky.social
theautisticadvocate.com/there-is-no-...
Come celebrate CRAE's leadership transition with us! Join us on 15th Jan to celebrate Anna's 9 years as Director, and to welcome Mel to the helm. Free tickets (must be pre-booked) available here:
Come celebrate CRAE's leadership transition with us! Join us on 15th Jan to celebrate Anna's 9 years as Director, and to welcome Mel to the helm. Free tickets (must be pre-booked) available here:
#WakeUpDeadMan
According to the Vicar 8/10 for ecclesiastical accuracy; odd obsession with perma-chasubles.
DON'T MISS this qualitative analysis which found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences.
FREE until 25th November
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A qualitative analysis by @kanabaletti.bsky.social et al found that autistic adults face a conflict between balancing their desire for social connection with their limited energy for engaging in social experiences.
FREE until 25th November
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New #CRAEwebinar
Last week Jada Brown shared her work on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK.' It was a brilliant webinar.
And it's now up on YouTube.
Today's #CRAEwebinar
Experiences of navigating university as an autistic people who are also marginalised by their Blackness
'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK' with Jada Brown.
Thur 6th Nov 4pm gmt
Mel is fab 😁
Big CRAE news!
From January 2026, @melromualdez.bsky.social will be taking over as CRAE Director, when @annaremington.bsky.social steps down after almost 9 years at the helm!
Read about the news here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/dr-me...
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🗞️ NEWS 🗞️
We are also sharing the book launch events! Dr Krysia Waldock @krysiawally.bsky.social and I are so excited about co-edited collections that we are sharing the launches of them too - in video format!
