Neurodiversity

God, Language, and Diversity
Spiritual flourishing in neurodiverse and multilingual communities.
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God, Language, and Diversity
Understanding the autistic social communication style (PhD)
Reducing health inequalities for autistic people by understanding how autistic people’s style of social communication differs from non-autistic people’s.
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Understanding the autistic social communication style (PhD)
Making space for Autistic people with ‘complex support needs’: Recommendations for inclusive research practices
The neurodiversity movement has reshaped how autism is conceptualized, represented, and increasingly researched. Yet Autistic people …
Diana W. Tan, Grant Blasko, Teresa Girolamo, Aimee Grant, Holly E. A. Sutherland, Jackie Ryan, Steven K. Kapp, Vikram K. Jaswal
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Teaching for Every Mind: Embracing Neurodiversity in the Classroom
A day of in-person training on neurodiversity and neuro-affirming support.
Nov 26, 2025 10:00 AM — 3:00 PM Middletown, Northern Ireland
Teaching for Every Mind: Embracing Neurodiversity in the Classroom
“The same, but entirely different”: reframing autistic social communicative (dys)function through mixed methods research
The way autistic people talk to and interact with other people has often been considered ‘wrong’ or ‘impaired’. Previous research has …
Holly E. A. Sutherland
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'A difference in typical values': autistic perspectives on autistic social communication
Autistic people socialise and communicate differently to non-autistic people. However, qualitative exploration of this, particularly …
Holly E. A. Sutherland, Catherine J. Crompton, Joseph Long, Sue Fletcher-Watson
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Holly Sutherland - Understanding Autistic Communication
In the latest Middletown Podcast, we chat with researcher Holly Sutherland about her ground-breaking work focusing on autistic …
Holly E. A. Sutherland, Kat Hughes
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'Read my lips, not my body': a thematic analysis of autistic people’s social communication preferences, experiences, and expectations
Differences in socialising and communicating between autistic and non-autistic people are well documented, but primarily from the …
Holly E. A. Sutherland, Catherine J. Crompton, Joseph Long, Sue Fletcher-Watson
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What is neuroaffirmative practice?
A panel discussion and Q&A session
Mar 13, 2025 9:20 AM — 10:10 AM Online
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What is neuroaffirmative practice?
How successfully do autistic and non-autistic raters guess the diagnostic status of people having conversations?
Recent research has shown that interactions between autistic people do not evidence the same social communication difficulties seen …
Holly E. A. Sutherland, Harriet Axbey, Martha Sharp, Danielle Ropar, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Catherine J. Crompton
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