Promotional graphic for Re-Storying Autism on-demand video course and workbook, featuring the blue book with rainbow infinity symbol, a five-star Kelly Mahler recommendation, and the quote: “Helps build environments where Autistic people can live with more felt safety, dignity, and self-trust.” Out 16 Feb 2026.

@neurohubcommunity.org and I are excited to announce that Re-Storying Autism has officially been published!

Available on Kindle, PDF, Paperback, and On-Demand Video.

Find out more here: neurohub.page/re-storyinga...

#ReStoryingAutism #Autistic #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAcceptance

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Delighted to have our new paper, “Eliciting the views of autistic adolescents attending specialist schools on what friendships mean to them”, published in @journalautism.bsky.social! 🧵

#autres #openaccess

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‘I think your child might be autistic’: A qualitative survey study examining how school staff broach initial interactions with parents whose children may be autistic Recognising and understanding that a child might be autistic is an important first step in the autism diagnostic pathway. For many families, this process involves working alongside school staff and, ....

Delighted to share a new paper, led by the brilliant Hannah Cresswell, reflecting the views of school staff (specifically SENCOs) regarding how they broach initial interactions with parents when they think that their child might be autistic 🧵
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📃New paper alert!📃

Editorial with @suereviews.bsky.social and @sarah595.bsky.social on doing research in high support needs autism services. We cover practical challenges, ethics, consent/assent issues, safeguarding, and the emotional burdens of research.

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read our new paper on situating emotion regulation from a neurodivergent youth perspective www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Autism and Physical Disability What does it mean to live at the intersection of autism, physical disability, trauma, and resilience? In Autism and Physical Disability, Wenn B. Lawson shares a deeply personal account of late-diagnos...

Just published!

Autism and Physical Disability
Dual Experiences, Challenges, and Inclusion Solutions
Author(s): Wenn B. Lawson

livedplacespublishing.com/book/isbn/97...

doi.org/10.62859/c.1...

@drjennyg.bsky.social

Co-Constructing Creative Methods for Voice with Sarah Parsons Research that seeks to develop and apply a more creative toolkit of methods to enable a range of voices to be included in autism research.

March seems far, far away,
but we've a #CRAEwebinar planned with Sarah Parsons, who will be talking about research that seeks to use a more creative toolkit of methods to enable a whole range of voices to be included in autism research.

What a time to be alive 😂😢

Diversity in Autistic Play: Autistic Adults' Experiences | Autism in Adulthood Background: Play is important for mental health and well-being. Descriptions of autistic play have typically focused on “deficits” and are based on comparisons to neurotypical “norms”. According to…

In this piece from the #PEDALResourceLibrary archives, PEDAL's @emmapritchard95.bsky.social, Carmen de Lemos, Katie Howard and PEDAL's @drjennyg.bsky.social focus on the experiences and perspectives of autistic people concerning the topic of autistic play:

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Ohhh this is so good to see ! Thanks for sharing

This meme introduces four ideas in sequence that get more and more mind-blowing. Each idea is illustrated with a more and more brightly lit and explosive brain. Idea 1 is neurodivergent people have characteristic strengths and talents Idea 2 is the very fact of neurodiversity and the differences between us is a source of strength and talent Idea 3 is our notion of strengths and talents is inherently capitalist and needs expanding Idea 4 is the concept of strengths and talents is completely irrelevant to valuing and respecting all humans equally

These meme challenges the simplistic idea that neurodiversity is a “strengths based” approach.

Yes do identify the things you’re good at and do those things. But no don’t make access to respect and understanding something people have to earn with a specific talent.

So my keynote at #AECongress25 involved a lot of memes to illustrate my points about how to understand and apply the neurodiversity paradigm.

The focus is on LIBERATION from OPPRESSIVE systems and beliefs.

This will work best, I believe, when we COLLECTIVISE our action.

Here we go…

Now, being, occupational: Outdoor play and children with autism Play is the primary occupation of children and the right for children to play has been acknowledged internationally, for all children, including those with disabilities. However, there is concern t...

Hi I know of this paper www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... (if you can’t access it I’ll send it to you). And check out Sinéad McNally’s work. Thank you !

I’d especially love to chat with anyone interested in:
💡 Autistic play
💡 Neurodiversity-affirming approaches (e.g., in education)
💡 Participatory research (including co-production)

Poster at Autism-Europe Congress 2025 titled "Supporting the cognitive underpinnings of learning in neurodiverse classrooms: A review of classroom-based interventions for children aged 8-11 years", showing date, time, and location where the presenter can be found

I’m really looking forward to presenting my poster at the Autism-Europe Congress 2025! 🌟

Do come say hi—or get in touch if you’d like to connect or meet up during the conference.

#AECongress2025 #AutismEurope #AutismCongress2025

In time for Disability Pride Month, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social’s thread on our Q-sort paper on how neurodivergent researchers understood what the neurodiversity movement is and should be (I loaded onto it being a social justice movement and led factor that it should promote genuine social inclusion)

Understanding Autistic Traits with the CATI Our new study confirms the CATI is a reliable, inclusive tool to explore Autistic traits! What is the CATI? The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI) is a 42-item questionnaire designed with Autistic input. It explores six key trait areas — like sensory sensitivity, masking, and self-regulatory behaviours (all traits named or endorsed by an Autistic focus group) What did we do? We tested the CATI with over 2,600 adults. Half were Autistic (diagnosed and self-identifying) and half non-Autistic people to check ensure it is a valid and reliable measure of autistic traits for both autistic and non-autistic adults. Autistic-led and community-shaped This is an Autistic co-led paper, that was steered by the community which included a review of the original CATI trait names and question wording. Read the paper open access  https://tinyurl.com/CATIAUTISM You can complete the CATI or want to know more  www.cati-autism.com

New paper alert! We psychometrically validated the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory. Please check it out. The main takeaways are below, but this has been such a wonderful project!
Open access paper tinyurl.com/CATIAUTISM

The power of words: respectful language in ADHD research Language is powerful. It reflects and shapes our understanding of the difficulties people face, the paradigms in which researchers and clinicians conduct research and practice while also influencing p...

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Handy new paper about the use of respectful language in ADHD research. Much needed, this discussion.

🌟 New paper out🌟

🔗 Open-access here lnkd.in/dFj997Ep

Our RE-STAR team co-produced the ‘My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ with Autistic and/or ADHD young people and tested this with 746 neurotypical and neurodivergent adolescents aged 11 to 16 years.

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NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?

Graphic announcing a new publication titled The A3ReAcH Framework. The top of the image features large bold text reading “NEW PAPER” with a subtitle above it: “The A3ReAcH Framework”. Below is a cropped screenshot of the journal article, showing the title: “The A3ReAcH (Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD research accessibility in healthcare) framework: Principles for inclusive healthcare research with autistic, ADHD and AuDHD individuals in radiography and medical radiation technology”, authored by Ben Potts, Emily Skelton, Georgia Pavlopoulou, Themis Karaminis, and Christina Malamateniou, and published in the Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences (2025).

🚨 New publication!
The first paper from my #PhD is now out!

The A3ReAcH Framework is 12 principles for inclusive, accessible research for autistic, ADHD & AuDHD people.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article out today: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

We examined verbal collaboration among autistic and non-autistic adults in same- and mixed-neurotype groups during a shared task.

New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children

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Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social

#AutRes #OpenSci

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Dr ‪@safriedman.bsky.social‬, Dr Sinéad McNally, and Dr @emmapritchard95.bsky.social‬ will participate in a panel discussion on "Neurodiversity-affirming play" at the #PEDALConference2025.

Please see pedalhub.net/conference20... for more details about our talks and speakers - not long to go now!

Autistic voices wanted! Join our online workshop on 29 May (6–8pm) to share your lived experience and help shape research on housing, environment & mental health in neurodivergent families.
Sign up: email me at t.delbianco@londonmet.ac.uk, or scan the QR code below!
#AutRes

Everyone isn’t ‘a little bit autistic’ – here’s why this notion is harmful This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

🌟New article / rant for @theconversation.com 🌟

Why it's NOT true to say "everyone's a bit Autistic"

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New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️