Autistic Children Can and Do Play: Innovative Perspectives on Functional Play by Hecker-Deel & Finke (2025)
Includes references to how monotropism may impact play too :)
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Autism isn’t caused by medicine.
Claims that paracetamol in pregnancy causes autism are false.
We do not need to prevent or cure autism.
Autistic people are valuable.
Great guidance here from @contactfamilies.bsky.social for anyone who is worried or concerned with the news today.
Alternatively, we can learn from #autistic and other #neurodivergent authored theory & #EdRes, and use #neuro-affirming approaches.
Less danger of #schooldistress, #masking and #burnout.
@autisticrealms.bsky.social & @tanyaadkin.bsky.social have a fab explainer:
autisticrealms.com/neuro-affirm...
Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism.
@fergus.oolong.co.uk – science teacher, writer and 'autist' – on single attention and associated cognition in autism; a theory with a family connection…
Now with 2025 update.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
How do we fix SEND while respecting rights? Here are SNJ’s 80 practical recommendations to solve the SEND Emergency: www.specialneedsjungle.com/s...
Just a request for TEP followers
One of our best ways at edpsy of sharing with your cohorts...is through you!
TEP tickets to our festival are only £20 and we'd love to see as many of you there as possible. If you could share this with your groups...amazing 🙏🌟
Tickets: festival.edpsy.org.uk
What a joy to be part of such an inspirational, diverse and inclusively minded 3 days at the first LICIE conference!
Overjoyed that a quote from one of my participants about addressing the ‘Double Empathy Problem’ was included in the live artwork 🤩
Hats off to everyone involved!
#LICIE2025
I am excited to announce that I will be presenting my MSc research about autistic pupils' strong interests at the LICIE conference at @ucl.ac.uk!
