Yes please!

Mind you, there’s a lot that could be done to improve the quality of teaching and careers advice in some universities so people can use what they learn for society’s benefit.

Learning about human interaction, society, culture, communication, artistic expression and media could be seen as dangerous if your agenda were to tell people what to think and feel.
But I would have said these courses are essentials for what I’d see as a healthy, strong society.

@lynnlaidlaw.bsky.social - any examples you could offer? Your knowledge of this is much broader and deeper than mine.

I was part of co-authoring with research colleagues with learning disabilities and co-authoring became a topic in the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Day 1 without #AccessToWork support and rather than do what I should, I've impulsively done this: www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-ann...

With ATW support I would have done what I actually need to do...
But, hey ho, until my renewal gets sorted, be prepared for random new initiatives like this!

This is a first attempt at making paper from marram grass. There was permission to harvest it, I hasten to add. It needs some work before it’s marketable, but it is showing potential for sewing as a book cover and translucent light shades.

A rare foray into the wild for me.

It was a privilege to speak at the @publicmap.bsky.social on inclusive public engagement with the title “Whose voices matter?”

I know we’re not disembodied voices. I’m still wondering what I could have used as a more accurate title. Maybe insights? Or knowledge?

This is not an access ramp. This is a ski jump slope.

If you are a therapist, read the paper - or at least read the conclusions.

With thanks as always to @thementalelf.bsky.social for making important research more accessible.

Sounds like my therapist. I know I was twice-extremely lucky. 1. I had therapy 2. I had about the only one who provides what this research says in needed.

New rule: if you can't pronounce it, you're not qualified to ban it.

#GoodNewsStory #TfW #DisabledTravel

For some reason, Passenger Assist had me changing trains at Shrewsbury (not the usual Cardiff or Newport).

Lifts at Shrewsbury not working.

So - rather than get *me* to the train they are doing complex platform alterations to bring the *train* to me.

:-(

I’m not going there. Women with intellectual disability have been sterilised and/or put on contraceptives in living memory as part of eugenics. I don’t want to encourage it for us…

Autism Announcement:

1. It’s not an epidemic

2. It’s not caused by anything mothers do or take during pregnancy any more than Down Syndrome is

3. Just like non-autistic people, we come with a range of skills, deficits and care & support needs.

4. Check you understand the scientific method

We are studying the Fruit of the Spirit at our chapel.
Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control

If we allow the Spirit to work within us, these fruit will become more obvious in our lives over time.

Praying this for all Christians involved in politics.

I’m a Christian. My understanding of my faith affects how I respond to world events:
1. We (Christians) are called to be peace makers.
2. My basis for hope is God and my confidence is in God, not politics.
3. The Bible needs reading *as a whole*. We tend to focus on the bits that suit our culture.

Thank you.

I wish I could understand (and therefore predict) when I’ll be a sensory seeker or avoider. Roll on more research into sensory processing!

I am part of the British public. I’m as British as they come. And I’m an evangelical Christian.

I refuse to describe political extremism as ‘centre ground’.

I reject calling far right beliefs ‘common sense’.

I abhor people claiming to protect Christian values while ignoring most Bible teaching.

Thank you to @hjellis.bsky.social for the fab live-posting from #AECongress2025 It’s been a treat to follow along from Wales.

I had an agreement that we shared the ownership of our shared data. Any of us could ask all the other co-creators for permission to use the shared data for purposes beyond the original purpose.

Can I add one factor that isn’t explicit in the overview on the. Nuffield site? The teachers. One showed an Autistic teen how to get max marks in creative writing and deconstructing poetry using the teens strengths (and to accept she’d not be able to get other marks). Others didn’t modify teaching.