Kim

💜Calling all parents & carers of autistic children! 💜 I’m a PhD student and mum with lived experience, and I am seeking your insights on how healthy eating information is shared with your child in their school #Autism #Research #ParentVoices #HealthyEating #LivedExperience

Brillant to be unboxing some copies of our NEurodivergent peer Support Toolkit (NEST). If you work in a secondary school and want to download (Free! Evidence-based!) resources to help set up peer support for neurodivergent students, find out more here: edin.ac/3Rr5W5R

super excited about today....thinking about collaborative change for ED services and research within and between Autistic people with lived experience of ED's, clinicians, researchers and third sector in collaboration with @SupportEDScot @AutismInit and @NAITScotland

Day three of #cogdev2023. Parallel sessions have just begun. Thought provoking talk by @DrAmyPearson on how autistic adults' conceptualise and recover from intimate partner violence and abuse.

So pleased I was able to attend @MariaLivanou1 talk today focusing on A co-production of an inclusive care model for adolescents transition from adolescent eating disorder services to adult care. #CogDev2023 @BPSDevSection @BPSCognitive

Really enjoyed listening to the lightning talk by Anastasia Lopukhina using eye tracking to investigate where children and adults look when watching videos with same-language subtitles #CogDev2023 @BPSDevSection @BPSCognitive

Really interesting talk on day 2 by Lauren McGuiness at #CogDev2023 about Social Desirability judgements based on Adults, Neurotypical children and Autistic children @BPSCognitive @BPSDevSection @LSMcGuinness

So wonderful to be sharing #CogDev2023 with so many of my wonderful developmental psychology colleagues from @StaffsPsych Sharing our research on #socialmedia #humour #digital#resilience & #children's #drawings.

36 journals are participating in a special issue on Neurodiversity. Submissions are due April 30th. It represents a variety of disciplines and neurodivergences. Good opportunity especially for neurodiversity and neurodivergent scholars and advocates. Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/products/call-…

Day 3 #ResearchAdvent 🎄 #1/2 TBH I would love parents & teachers to perceive my research as useful. For it to influence their behaviour & practice so that children will be the beneficiaries. Not asking for much really 🤣

💜 Okay, is anyone else SUPER excited for our Autism and Eating Disorders workshop tomorrow???? 💜

📢 NEW PAPER! Sex differences in the neurobiology of #EatingDisorders have been neglected, as many imaging studies have excluded males. Here we present the first assessment of #SexDifferences in gray matter morphometry in #BingeEatingDisorder. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The @nationaltrust are giving away free family passes this week 🍃 These can be used up until 30th November. They allow up to 2 adults and 4 children free entry to one of their sites this autumn. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 nationaltrust-tickets.org.uk/category/33142…

The interactive programme as seen in vid here allows you to navigate by day, then zoom into event abstracts. You can favourite these for access later. Navigate to the poster section and even download as a static pdf if that’s useful to have to hand.

NEW eBOOK out today! How to Support Your Autistic Child with Food, Eating and Mealtimes: A Practical Guide for Parents, Carers and Other Supporting Adults amzn.to/3B0oQbP Please share far and wide

We are proud to present our Children’s Alliance Report on ‘The Mental Health of Children and Young People’. A summary of the report and 9 individual recommendations that the report calls on the government to implement are shown below. Please Share! #cabinetminister4children

Are you an eating disorder researcher? Are you working on an exciting project, planning one, and just published? If so, we'd love to hear about the work you're doing - come join one of our monthly discussion groups! For more info, email: [email protected] #phdchat #phdlife

Researchers from @StaffsUni @StaffsUniHSW are a piloting a new support program to help students managing caring responsibilities alongside their studies bit.ly/32rVcNT

New Directory Listing: Harriet Summerfield, Counsellor & Psychotherapist Read more: buff.ly/3BXSf4r