Elaine Mcgreevy
@ElaineMcgreevy
Speech and language therapist, passionate about supporting autistic people. #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #Monotropic
Some examples of reasonable adjustments autistic children wish their teachers would do: 1. Please don't shout. It hurts my ears. It makes me worried. 2. Please move me away from my bully. 3. I want to sit at the window because when I see a tractor going past, I don't feel so sad.
Dyspraxia & Teeth-Brushing 🦷 🪥 I’m looking for recommendations of ergonomic-handled electric toothbrushes with a light vibration. Anyone know of any?
The government has told me there is “no need for an inquiry” into its role in Israeli war crimes. Meanwhile, starving Palestinians continue to be killed by a nation the UK continues to arm. Join us at thegazatribunal.uk to expose the truth about UK complicity in genocide.
Save Our Children's Rights - What's at Risk, Why It Matters and How You Can Take Action Watch the latest episode of #SENDAGENDA - News here: youtu.be/nbzUiDrFL48 Benjamin Palmer and Rachel Filmer discuss the importance of maintaining legal rights for SEND provision.
Autistics arrested & detained in police custody, interviews, free link.springer.com/article/10.100… "findings indicate that we are failing to protect autistic people’s right to equal access justice" which "may expose them to greater risks of miscarriages of justice and self-incrimination"
Remarkable that one of the strongest voices against the UK’s complicity is a Conservative. And he has the politics right: only the Labour back benches can change UK policy. We need a campaign to target *every* Labour MP to get a change, and soon.
Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?" Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming
1/3 Quoting a person with lived experience of enforced isolation: "Loneliness cripples you... You rot alone and the world moves on, but you stay the terrified teenager that was first put in LTS" [p. 2 of HOPE(S) Evaluation]...
Please share and comment. Please help me stop my family being failed and hurt again.
Please can you help me let @PHSO know that they must not publish their botched report and slit our throats again. Please help me to get a meeting with Paula Sussex. Senior staff have hid. @wesstreeting @Keir_Starmer @PHSO_theFACTS @PHSO @pollycurtis @katiewaissel24…
Our research shows that forcing parent carers to battle for support - & subjecting them to unsubstantiated accusations of neglect, abuse, or FII - puts them at risk of suicide & homicide. It's time to fix the system and stop blaming #ParentCarers!! thetimes.com/life-style/par…
Utterly disgusting and even more so because the coroner thinks that learning disabilities is a cause of death.
Terrible indictment of our times. A very ill mum died despite phoning an ambulance & her daughter with Downs died probably through starvation. They were not found for months. Not a tragic situation it's about the breakdown of our services & communities nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…
Being this stupid won’t be a legitimate defense at The Hague
Malthouse *was* right to personalise it. Lammy has been the chief spokesman for British complicity. We need to personalise it with *every* MP who is not up in arms about Gaza, especially those who voted to criminalise direct action protests: the starving are their responsibility
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Further thoughts from @GeorgeJulian about @AliveLeder and the @mencap_charity response to it. [As grim as you'd expect...] georgejulian.co.uk/2025/07/22/sid…
The MAT horror stories are coming thick and fast: this one's from Ark Academy Hastings. ITV News reports that in just 3 years, 472 kids were pulled from the Ark school before the end of their scheduled secondary education. 28% were SEND. 39% left without a new school arranged. ⬇️
Check out my latest article, which explores how vocal accent acts as another mechanism to reinforce the problematic idea that race is something that we see. It is open access, so there is no excuse not to read it: doi.org/10.1111/ijal.1…
Introducing you to a brilliant podcast series and one particular episode about neurodivergent sensory processing and insect telepathy! Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or over at: neurodiverseuniverse.substack.com
Do you have lived experience of undergoing PBS/ABA? If so, we want to hear your story. ndconnection.co.uk/against-pbs-ab… The quote below comes from an anonymous contributor who has lived experience of PBS. #AgainstPBSandABA
ITV News now reporting on story I've been writing about in recent weeks: "Strict behaviour policy blamed for 'exodus of 500 pupils' from Ark Alexandra Academy in Hastings. itv.com/news/meridian/…
This is not inclusion @bphillipsonMP It is segregation of children with very different needs in order to save money. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
The Government understands SEND Legal Rights... Right? We don't think so! Where are the aspirations of the Children & Families Act? We deserve #MoreThanOrdinary #SaveOurChildrensRights saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
Well done to Edinburgh and Belfast Police for refusing to arrest people holding up Palestine Action posters over the weekend and letting the protestors carry on peacefully. Hopefully their empathic actions will spread to other police forces.