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If you're newly coming into your Disabled identity, it's worth learning some history of Disabled people's activism. Just get some context.

And even if you're not newly coming into your Disabled identity, it's still worth it.

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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A large snow covered peak on the left glows orange. To the right a glacier carved valley sits in shadow.

The Jungfrau peak catches the last rays of sun over the Lauterbrunnen valley. 🇨🇭 📷

HMCI says some complaints parents make about provision are "heartbreaking".Sometimes these parents feel that they have battling the system for their child's entire lives, he says. (It's good to hear this sympathetic view; too often parent perspective is pitted vs that of schools).

There's a generation of nonspeaking autistic young people, including my daughter, who are going to shake things up now they have access to robust AAC. But too many of their peers have nothing, because it's assumed that lack of speech is a social deficit, not a motor planning difficulty.

Why some autistic people don’t speak For around a third of autistic people, speaking is hard.

🌟New piece out today in @theconversation.com on Autistic people who are non-speaking or semi-speaking (they can speak some times)

theconversation.com/why-some-aut...

As a parent to a nonspeaking teenager, it's really good to see this article busting some myths and promoting AAC. I feel the link with CAS / apraxia needs more research. Diagnostic overshadowing is a huge issue. My daughter typed 'I know what I want to say but can't make the words come out'.

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

Culture Warriors’ Attacks on the National Trust Charles Moore uses the Spectator of 3 June to rally support for a rebel National Trust group. Calling themselves Restore Trust, this group of disaffected members and former members bemoan the insti…

Now that it’s the time of year when the obscurely-funded right wing Restore Trust, a private company, try once again to take over the National Trust, my annual reminder of what they want to do with our history & heritage.

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Understanding the embodiment of UK Black, autistic university students Jada Brown will consider what it might be like to navigate university as an autistic person who is also marginalised by their Blackness.

We are so pleased to announce next month's #CRAEwebinar.
Jada Brown will be speaking on 'Understanding the embodied experiences of Black, autistic university students in the UK'

Do join us: Thur 6th Nov 4pm

National Trust members, remember to vote to keep out Restore Trust. The quick vote may not be your favourite thing, but it's the best way to stop them and not split the vote.

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh.

Taken in the quiet room at our walk in centre. The NHS estate is full of these types of signs.

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

A photo of a young boy in a blue waterproof coat looking up through a pair of binoculars at something unseen in the surrounding woodland scene. Text overlay reads: "have you cast your vote yet? Make your voice count in this year's AGM"

Cast your vote in our Annual General Meeting before midnight on 31 Oct: buff.ly/aczpS66

You can help shape the Trust now and for generations to come so that we remain a place for everyone, for ever.

Many of the Black boys and young men were being described as having behaviour difficulties, rather than exploring an autism diagnosis.
Co-founded a national group for Educational Psychologists, (ASIG-EP), creating networks that can influence positive change/

Catherine also talks about the traumatising impact of the inpatient environments and procedures. (My note: so many people go in to get worse, not better, in too many cases).

So, what do we do?
It starts with self-reflection, and about being humble & authentic. A journey of discovery/

Now Catherine Dakin speaking at #AutismArtOfThePossible. Late dx Neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD) parent, and Autism Specialist Consultant Psychiatrist, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
Catherine talks about her own past, a lifetime of self-criticism rather than self-understanding/

#AutismArtOfThePossible
Ruth Moyse talks about her past research on autistic children and schools. Every child who wasn't able to attend school said they wished they could attend. But they can't do it. It's impossible for them.

It's not school 'refusal'. They can't access the school.

AT-Autism Conference 2025 The Art of the Possible - AT-Autism

#AutismArtOfThePossible
Andrew Reece & Lucy Dunstan, next. Bios can be found at www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

Andrew begins by talking about Kasibba, and the journey to get her out of hospital. Huge fees, stress & effort against barriers, but Camden managed it. How?../

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

Glossy Ibis

Water Rail

Common Snipe

Golden Plovers

Highlights from my wander around Summer Leys yesterday the long staying Glossy Ibis is still present, 3 GW Egrets, 1 Water Rail, 8 Common Snipe and 14 Golden Plovers flew over.
#birds @wildlifebcn.org #northantsbirds #Nikon

Child's physiotherapy delayed by county boundary 'bureaucracy' Reuben lives in Royston so his GP falls under Cambridgeshire, but his school is in Hertfordshire.

County border red tape leaves boy without physio

#Bedfordshire #BedsBucksHerts

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

There seems to have been a shift over the last 5-10 years to much more external control over behaviour in secondary, based on 'zero tolerance' type approaches pushed by high profile educators. So we have a split between a self-regulation/agency focus in primary and a control focus in secondary. 2/3

A close-up of a glowing full Moon, filling the frame against the black night sky. Its surface is marked with craters and rugged textures. This is a supermoon, appearing larger and brighter than usual.

Tonight, the Harvest Moon rises: the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. 🌕

October’s full moon is also named the Hunter’s Moon, once marking a time to gather food for winter.

It will be the first of three supermoons this year, glowing bigger & brighter.

Moonrise: 19:44*

‘Integration’ means contributing to this country’s prosperity, unity & equity. It means loving it enough to be champions of connection across the rich diversity of its people. That certainly doesn’t apply to those stirring prejudice & division. They do so for their own selfish gain. Shame on them.

Semi-regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job

All Jobs: 110,774
Fully Remote: 673
Of which are disability confident: 92
Of which are part-time: 5

BUT 3 of them are in care homes, so TWO WHOLE JOBS

Impartiality in the Civil Service - Heywood Quarterly Amanda Spielman, former Chief Inspector of Schools, describes how she approached the challenge of impartiality at Ofsted.

Former Chief Inspector of Schools writes about the importance of impartiality.

Does she sound impartial in relation to Ofsted and the Equality Act?

Spoiler at the end: she's now a Conservative peer.

Make it make sense!
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