(Neuro)Queering Education

A thread of some our speakers from our 2024 (Neuro)Queering Education event... news on 2025 soon!

Autism Terminology Preferences Among Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults in North America | Autism in Adulthood Background: There is widespread debate about the language used to describe autistic people; many professionals prefer person-first language (e.g., “person with autism”), and many autistic people prefe...

Today in Hell Yes, Research! and also Journalists, Take Note:

Autistic people in North America consistently prefer the term "autistic" compared to "person with autism"—and also dislike/don't use functioning labels like "high-" or "low-functioning autism."

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... #autism

“What does ‘often’ even mean?” Revising and validating the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory in partnership with autistic people - Molecular Autism Background In this study, we revised the comprehensive autistic trait inventory (CATI)—a self-report inventory of autistic traits, in collaboration with autistic people and provided preliminary eviden...

molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Aha, I like this. A team working with autistic people to make an autism screening tool that actually works for autistic people.

‘Understanding what it means to live with ventilation means listening to both stories of opportunity and disabled joy, and to the more challenging stories of discrimination, precarity and fear.’

@crippingbreath.bsky.social

www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Dr Laura Trafi-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social imagined new possibilities for spelling lists, dyslexia, and creativity, using queer/crip concepts of humour and time (Kafer, 2013)

Dr Lea Rackley discussed her research reframing 'attention deficit' as 'attention abundance.' We discussed some of its implications and practicalities for education in England.

Keisha Swaby, author of "Empowering Dyslexics: Blessed & Gifted," shared her Dyslexia journey: “No GCSE to a Masters! A story of determination and resilience!”

Liverpool artist @lotierneyart.bsky.social shared some of her work and talked about her artist-activist practice. We thought about how Disability Arts might be celebrated in inclusive and specialist education.

At last year's event, @wardasworld.bsky.social shared insights from her anti-racist SaLT practice in a presentation entitled “Possibilities of Ethical Resistance and Liberatory Praxis in Speech and Language Therapy.”

!!!News on our 2025 (Neuro)Queering Education event coming soon!!!