Prof of Developmental Psychology at Uni of Edinburgh
Dean of Equity Inclusion & Community for my faculty
Editor of @journalautism.bsky.social
Creator of #AutRes and Edinburgh! feeds
Founder of SuperTroop
"a loose canon"
Queer, cis, she/her
Sue Fletcher-Watson
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Wonderful!
What happened to LEANS in the wild? Capturing reported use and perceived impacts of a free neurodiversity teaching resource for children
Alyssa M Alcorn, @suereviews.bsky.social , AAHH Aldebasi, C Croft
research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publicati...
salvesen-research.ed.ac.uk/leans
The Centre for Mental Health has issued a warning over the new EHRC guidelines:
“We believe [the code] will likely have an impact on their mental health and may make trans and non-binary people seeking support for mental distress or mental illness feel unsafe and unsupported”
https://bit.ly/4u7VsJ9
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/
The publication of the Code brings deep concerns that trans and non-binary people's lives will be negatively affected by its implementation.
New video with @sineadmullally.bsky.social talking about the recently published paper on growing-up Autistic: sharing Autistic children's experiences and insights.
Watch the full video on our YouTube: youtu.be/iJNncMrHDnI
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1362...
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
Really proud of this special collection - a handpicked selection of articles representing some of the seminal work published in our journal over the past 30 years!
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar)
Good Law Project
GPs are ‘coming under pressure’ to diagnose conditions such as autism and ADHD that lead to benefit entitlement, a new report has found.
If the NHS won’t protect trans children, we will 🩵 🩶 🩷
We are dedicating funds to support at least 10 trans kids’ gender affirming care after the NHS suddenly dropped their treatment
If you'd like to help us support more trans children's access to healthcare click here👇
https://goodlaw.social/nl30
Steven Kapp
Psychologists doing clustering be like:
#statsmeme
A message of love to our trans friends and colleagues and partners at the end of another week of being brutalised by the State. We're still here, we care, we're fighting for you. Please don't despair.
Oh, and, lest I forget, #FuckWesStreeting
