Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.
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- August 2025
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Author
- Abs S. Ashley
- Adam Fare
- Aimee Fletcher
- Aisling Sheehy
- Ann Memmott
- Antonia Aluko
- Beverley Samways
- Brendan Maguire
- Callum Stephen Howes
- Cassandra Lovelock
- Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar
- Charli Clement
- Claire
- Cos Michael
- Darren O'Reilly
- Dr Catherine Crompton
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno
- El Dewar
- Elise Guthrie Stirling
- Emily Lees
- Emily Katy
- Emily Wooden
- Emma Nielson
- Grace Lee
- Guest Contributor
- Harriet Axbey
- Hat Porter
- Helen Edgar
- Iqra Babar
- Jill Corbyn
- Kai Schweizer
- Katrine Callander
- Kay Louise Aldred
- Krysia Waldock
- Kyra Thompson
- Lizzie Smith
- Lucy Gilbert
- Meena Kumari
- Molly Anderton
- Nick Ransom
- Reesha Zahir
- Remie Colledge
- Rhiannon Williams
- Rod Landman
- Rose Matthews
- Sarah Douglas
- Sarah Boon
- Sascha Bellamy
- Sophie Broadgate
- Stop Oxevision
- Thomas Barnett
- Tina
- Trauma Geek
- Warda Farah
4 Questions For…Authors of Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning: From Babble to Later Life
We sit down to discuss Krysia Waldock and Nathan Keates new edited book, exploring Neurodivergent learning from babble to later life.
Autism Research—What’s New in August?
In this month’s research roundup Ann picks out some of the current big debates on Autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
Autism Research—What’s New in July
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
4 Questions For: Autistic experiences of menopause study
In this installment of our 4Q4 (Four Questions For) blogs, we speak with Rose Matthews, Community Research Associate on the Bridging the Silos: Autistic Menopause Study, an international co-produced research study bringing together Autistic community representatives and academics from Carleton University in Canada and Bournemouth University in the UK.
What’s New in Autism Research—Housing and Sensory Needs Edition
This research roundup picks out some of the current Neurodivergent Affirming and best practice research around sensory needs in housing.
4Q4: The experiences of Autistic adults on inpatient mental health wards
In this latest article in our ‘Four Questions For’ series exploring new research projects, we talk to Rhiannon Williams, a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at Coventry University. Her doctoral research project asks ‘What are the Experiences of Autistic Adults who have Spent Time on Inpatient Mental Health Wards in England?’
Autistic Trauma and Identity: Insights from Narrative Research
Katrine Callander shares Autistic-led PhD research into the traumatic impact that grooming and coercive control has on Autistic people, rooting her work in the complexities of late-identification, the pursuit of agency and authentic Autistic selfhood,.
Autism Research - What’s New in September 2023
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases some of the research from teams making an impact on improving the quality of life for autistic individuals.
Autism Research - What’s New in August 2023
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases some of the research from teams making an impact on improving the quality of life for autistic individuals.
Monotropism and The Monotropism Questionnaire
The theory of monotropism was developed by Dr Dinah Murray, Dr Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser (2005) in their article, Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism.
Monotropic people focus more attention and energy resources on a more limited number of channels of interest than non-monotropic (polytropic) people, who may be able to attend to a broader range of channels and find it easier to switch between channels of interest and tasks.
- ABA
- abuse
- accessible
- ADHD
- adults
- advocacy
- affirming
- aging
- assessment
- autism
- autistic parents
- black autistic
- building design
- burnout
- childhood
- children
- co production
- coercive control
- communication
- community
- culture
- depression
- Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
- diagnosis
- disability
- dyslexia
- eating disorders
- education
- empathy
- employment
- environment
- ethics
- family
- friendships
- GCC Summit 2023
- gender
- government
- grooming
- guidance
- health
- healthcare
- holiday
- housing
- human rights
- identity
- inclusion
- inpatient
- intersectionality
- joy
- language
- late diagnosed
- learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- lived experience
- masking
- medicalisation
- meltdown
- mental health
- monotropism
- mothers
- nervous system
- newly diagnosed
- NHS
- OCD
- online
- pain
- parents
- PBS
- peer support
- play
- psychiatric care
- quality of life
- race
- racism
- reasonable adjustments
- relationships
- research
- resources
- routine
- school
- self diagnosis
- self regulation
- sensory environment
- sensory overwhelm
- sensory processing
- services
- sexism
- special interests
- spirituality
- stimming
- stress
- suicide
- support
- therapy
- training
- trauma
- trauma-informed
- women
- workplace
- young people
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