The features of social communication that are useful in the identification of #Autism do not necessarily require intervention - and similarly, individual needs are not always met by diagnostic pathways to help individuals understand themselves better @suereviews.bsky.social at #CLTTSummerLecture2025
Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social sharing resources to share with young people on #Neurodiversity #Inclusion and #Education at the #CLTTSummerLecture2025 @cltt.bsky.social
Sue Fletcher Watson's take home messages for practitioners and interested viewers - work with people, and consider values. We have much to learn! #CLTTSummerLecture2025
Read more about the #NEST project to support #Neurodiversity, #Inclusion and #Education in schools through peer groups. Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual @cltt.bsky.social Summer Lecture #CLTTSummerLecture2025
The #NEST approach - #Neurodiversity Alliance: young people wanted groups to be open to a broad cohort of neurodivergent young people, similar to LGBT groups. Sue Fletcher Watson - @cltt.bsky.social #CLTTSummerLecture2025
Autistic people weren't talking about distinctive features of autistic communication - people were talking about the values and purpose of communication: recognition, truth, permissiveness and flexibility, information sharing, clarity - #CLTTSummerLecture2025
People have a better interactive experience when they know who is autistic and who is not when sharing information in a chain. Rapport is more impacted than information-sharing across neurotypes #CLTTSummerLecture2025
#CLTTSummerLecture2025 - Research across neurotypes shows that autistic communication is as effective as neurotypical communication when autistic people communicate with other autistic people. Recently replicated findings and new data. Sue Fletcher Watson talks #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Education
@suereviews.bsky.social is using a wonderful metaphor of trees to explain the Neurodiversity paradigm at #CLTTsummerlecture2025.
Just about to kick off the #CLTTsummerlecture2025 with Sue Fletcher-Watson on Neurodiversity, Communication and Inclusive Education. Great topic!
I'll post a few key points in this 🧵
