Quick question on behalf of a mentee - Is anyone familiar with whether the 'Girls on Board' training for schools has any content/consideration about neurodivergent/autistic girls' experiences?
Re autistic children, the Autistic Girls Network survey & research in 2021 💕 found that only 3 out of 17 participants had a successful Y6-7 transition. Individualised plans & friendships helped. Feb half term in Y7 was when most transitions broke down autisticgirlsnetwork.org/some-tips-fo...
‘It feels like we're out of the rat race’: Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home ed. (Gillie, 2025)
This research reveals the uncertainty of access to support for some neurodivergent families who deregister & home ed
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A lovely positive boost finding out during neurodiversity celebration week that my paper with @drlornaham.bsky.social and Dr Jonathan Vincent was a top-cited paper last year 🥳
A wild year for the Barkley marathon, and a nailbiting joy to follow. Far less of a joy to run, I imagine! #bm100
Ahhh thank you for sharing, I missed this! And she's coming to Leeds 🥳
@rachaelmaskell.bsky.social has also spoken out.
Agreed. And the narrative being pushed that "people just don't want to work" is so dangerous and othering, and detracts from what's genuinely important (like functioning healthcare, accessible and accepting workplaces, and genuinely listening to disabled people)
And being able to make these adjustments reduces potential burnout, surely making it more, not less, possible to be in work? Targeting PIP makes no sense to me at all.
The Barkley marathon is a long-term special interest for me. Happy to be able to follow on bsky now! #BM100
Screenshot of talks information - "Transitions in education: challenges and experiences across diverse student populations" on Tuesday 10th September 4pm-5:30pm in University place room 3.205
In Manchester this week for the #BERA conference. I'll be presenting my research on primary-secondary school transition experiences for neurodivergent pupils. 👩🏫
If you're here please come and say hi 👋
#BERA2024 #Educationalresearch #Schooltransitions
Struggling with this too! Can you let me know if you find anything good?
Love this - often the only approach to someone not understanding something is simplification. Really interesting to see alternative explanations and responses being explored!
What a great depiction! 🥴
Please use and share! 📣 t.ly/4P9Cc 📣 Listening to first person autistic / neurodivergent / AuDHD accounts and experiences are so important to help facilitate the best possible school transition experiences! 🏫 6/6
Animations may be useful for teachers and SENCO working with autistic / neurodivergent pupils moving from primary to secondary school. 🎒 5/6
Animated by the fantastic Jason Kerley (👤 t.ly/qZsru). Project funded by Sir Halley Stewart Trust 😊 4/6
School transition experiences were explored using a range of participatory creative research methods (including draw write tell 🖍️, photovoice 📷, walk and talk 🚶). More detail in our recent paper: 🔗 t.ly/Vi1NZ 🔗 3/6
Animation explores different experiences moving to mainstream secondary school in #neurodivergent #autistic young people’s own words. ✍️ Collaborators met with the animator to decide on text content and how their words would be reflected through animation 🎬 2/6
Introduction frame from YouTube video entitled "STEPS school transition experiences for pupils with SEN/D. How are you feeling about transition to secondary school?". Frame features a smiling and waving animated character, title text, and logos for collaborators including YSJ University, Sir Halley Stewart Trust, City of York Council, Institute for Social Justice.
Excited to share the first of three animations created collaboratively by a group of amazing autistic / neurodivergent young people, on their feelings moving to secondary school! 🏫
📽️ Watch here: t.ly/4P9Cc 📽️
Led by Dr Jonathan Vincent w/ myself and @drlornaham.bsky.social 🧵1/6
#AutRes #EduSky
This sounds brilliant, can't wait to read!
Thank you! It was great to be able to offer a choice of approaches to match different interests and preferences 😊
Great to see work like this coming out, using creative approaches like ‘walk and talk’ and photography to involve autistic young people in research
Thank you so much
Very cool stuff!
Thanks Sue!
Thank you so much! It's so important to recognise the value and importance of first person perspectives and lived experience
Sounds like you're doing really valuable work! We found that offering a choice of different methods to suit preferences and skills was an effective way to engage with the young people in our research. 😊
Paper published with @drlornaham.bsky.social. Sorry not used to this new app yet!!
