Caroline Casula

Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective - Catherine J Crompton, Danielle Ropar, Claire VM Evans-Williams, Emma G Flynn, Sue Fletcher-Watson, 2020 Effective information transfer requires social communication skills. As autism is clinically defined by social communication deficits, it may be expected that i...

You may have heard me mention that we’ve been doing a follow-up study of our 2020 diffusion chain study which compared how autistic groups, non-autistic groups and mixed groups share information and build rapport (published in @journalautism.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)

Summer themed poster with picture of Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson. The talk theme is Neurodiversity, Communication and Inclusive Education.

Prof Sue Fletcher-Watson joins us for our Summer Lecture. Please share with your networks, thank you. @vjoffe.bsky.social @speechy01.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @susanebbels.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @speechandlanguk.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social

The nature of the relation between mental illbeing and wellbeing osf.io/preprints/ps...

Also of interest for #AugComm AAC people. The physical environment played a role in how communication boards were used in the classrooms.

Single page PDF on “Revisiting the AAC Prompt Hierarchy” by Rachael Langley. Main points are to focus on 4 healthy habits- thoughtful pause, express interest with body language, observe & comment, model without expectation. Avoid these harmful habits: model so they copy you, prompt to make them say it

I was going through my account on the old site & making sure I have copies of useful resources before deleting. I thought it might be nice to post some here. This is Rachael Langley’s handout on healthy prompting around AAC use. #AugComm #ATChat #BskySpeechies

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New paper with Hannah Cullen!! Views of children with #DevLangDis and #slcn on their peer interactions. Published in ADLI. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Disability barriers autistic girls face in secondary education: A systematic review - Kathryn Urbaniak, Miranda D’Amico, 2024 Autistic adolescent girls face complex and diverse challenges in the school setting, specifically mental health issues, unmet social and education needs, and so...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... More research we need. Autistic girls in school. What barriers do they face? Well worth a read.

The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm - Nature Human Behaviour Using a battery of statistical tools, Alagöz et al. examine the genetic overlap between dyslexia and rhythm impairment and shed light on how the genome influences the neural bases of human language an...

Our paper out today in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social integrates data from large-scale genome scans of dyslexia & rhythm skills, as a novel way to investigate biological overlaps between human traits related to language & musicality. Co-led by Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt). 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

School environments are inaccessible for many autistic and neurodivergent learners (and staff) on many levels, relating to every sense.

Noise. Sight. Smell. Touch. Interoception. Proprioception. Taste. Yes, even vestibular...
#learningSpacesScotland #eduSky #accessibility

A screenshot of the first page of the article, showing the title ("when I say ... neurodiversity paradigm"), the author information, and the start of the main text.

🗞️🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️🗞️

"medical education will fundamentally fail in its mission to support neurodivergent learners unless we undergo a significant transformation"

Read free: asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#MedEd

@autisticdoctor.bsky.social @asmeofficial.bsky.social

The ban targets social media that allows users to interact socially with others. This will impact young people's ability to seek connection and interaction - including for YP with communication disability, who value social media because of the opportunities it provides for these things. #SLP

Thank you!

Would be very grateful if you would add me Kim... 🙏