Two-year part-time online MSc course in Psychology and Learning Disability at the University of Portsmouth - core subjects, research methods, thesis! #LD #autism #ND
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Also the first Autism Acceptance Day for @drstevenkapp.bsky.social’s paper on how sensory and movement differences contribute to autism across the lifespan, related perception and neurological processing, their impacts, and means of supporting or addressing them.
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On April 30 at 4 pm (UK time) @drstevenkapp.bsky.social will present a free webinar on his research on neurodiversity with implications for support, @uopcidd.bsky.social, and our online MSc course. Sign up to register and receive a recording even if you cannot attend.
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One of our students, @chloeapter.bsky.social, is recruiting
autistic adults in the UK who have (also) been assigned the “challenging behaviour” label for interviews (emails, text chat, video, or London) on their experiences and how they make sense of the term, for her
@uoppald.bsky.social MSc. 🙏
Check out this influential 'double empathy problem' paper in the history of @journalautism.bsky.social, co-authored by our module coordinator and supervisor Professor Beatriz Lopez, a distinguished part of this special collection on Autism's 30th anniversary: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...
Happy Autism Acceptance Day! Our module coordinator, supervisor & tutor @drstevenkapp.bsky.social commented on the UK Government's commissioned interim report on autism, ADHD & mental health (see below), supporting self-identification and raising concerns about further limits on access to diagnoses.
@uopcidd.bsky.social Director Prof Beatriz López presented meta-analysis w/ ~30k participants: higher variability in autistic ppl for theory of mind & flexibility executive functioning tasks than central coherence or planning EF task. Variability was *not* higher over time #INSAR2026 #neurodiversity
Happy Neurodiversity Celebration Week! Thank you @drstevenkapp.bsky.social for mentioning our course at Portsmouth's Celebrating Neurodiversity event & UK clinicians via nscience.
Re: US Dr Kapp & @autisticadvocacy.org raised concerns about new autism committee: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Chairing #INSAR2026 panel on Autistic People's Views on Autism Diagnosis and Intervention w/ talks questioning "optimal outcome", on autistic autism diagnosticians, early intervention strategies benefits and harms, and barriers to autism identification among ethically and racially minoritised adults
My @uoppald.bsky.social student @chloeapter.bsky.social is seeking more participants for her study on autistic people's experiences of being assigned a label like "challenging behaviour"/"problem behaviour" etc (like her). W/ enough participants, all going well, we hope to publish. Could you repost?
Neurodiversity movement: autism is difference *&*disability. 1st Autism Acceptance Day for this paper showing strengths eg enhanced auditory perception can contribute to challenges eg speech divergence. *Holistic classification* needed for assessment, support. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This narrative review analyzes the visual and auditory advantages that autistic people with speech divergence (A-SD) may have compared with autistic people without speech divergence (A-NoSD) or non-a...
