Intersections may magnify stigmas… but intersections are also where communities of mutual care can be built.
My #Pride reading today.
“Lived-experience... no, living-experience - I’m not dead yet”
Wenn Lawson
Reflecting on the opening of this debate in the House of Lords. The optimist in me sees a report that is deep with lived-experience and, in that, it might become a template for how governance can do things better.
Tomorrow UK's House of Lords Committee will debate the Autism Act 2009 & new autism strategy. You can attend/watch below.
Dangerous time: Government harmfully claims autism may be overdiagnosed & right-wing thinktank below claims children should have (harmful) behavioural therapy, not diagnoses. 1/
May we steer any secondary school history teachers with experience of Holocaust education with autistic (and non-autistic) pupils towards this call for participants:
Autistic people are in every profession, and that includes the law. But research is thin. A new study is listening to UK autistic legal professionals.
If you can help us with an online interview, get in touch at [email protected]
Not you? A share would help us reach others 🙂
Policy fails when there is a disconnect between those drafting legislation and those it impacts.
This years #CRAEanuualLecture is with Laura Crane - Specialist Adviser with House of Lords Autism Act 2009 Committee - who has been bridging this gap.
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Director Mel Romualdez and Comms & Engagement Officer Brian Irvine met with UCL Public Engagement (UCL Public Engagement) to talk about CRAE's participatory approach to autism research... and the impact that can have.
NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social looks at the numbers and concludes that using "Not Quite Experts" at Hand will be the only solution to fully realise the Government's big new plan for school support. www.specialneedsjungle.com/not-quite-ex...
Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK?
Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family?
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14