Neurodiversity Ireland

🩷Tickets for neurodiversityireland.com/events/summit-… limited in person @tcddublin but unrestricted online: join our incredible line up to discuss the current topics affecting #neurodivergent children & families #edchatie 🩷

💥 It's Disability Pride Month! This month, and every month, we acknowledge the power of grassroots and disabled-led advocacy and the impact it has made, and continues to make, in Ireland and beyond. ✊ Join us here 👉mailchi.mp/3ce7ca8f3fc3/d… #DisabilityAdvocacy #HumanRights

We are ‘AGAINST PBS & ABA’ – Neurodivergent people deserve better. So what are the alternatives to PBS & ABA? For more info, visit our website & keep an eye on our social channels. We'll be sharing more about these alternatives soon! ndconnection.co.uk/against-pbs-aba #AgainstPBSandABA

Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability Research -What’s New in June — Neurodiverse Connection via ⁦@AnnMemmott⁩ 🙏🏻 ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-re…

"This annual celebration is a vital affirmation of the rights, dignity, and joy of our LGBT+ communities." #GCNnews gcn.ie/dublin-pride-p…

YES!

The best decision I ever made,...

Wouldn’t be pride without our traditional annual photo 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👮‍♂️

true allies are those who would be willing to acknowledge that they are also like us, if that turned out to be the case #autistic

If the #autistic professional community is saying the traditional approach to #autism is wrong – and we are – is it time to take a fresh look at autistic phenomenology and our approach to diagnosis? linkedin.com/posts/mary-doh…

"Exasperated and utterly dismayed": that's how the Children's Ombudsman, Niall Muldoon, described his own feelings around a long list of chronic issues affecting children. Dr Niall Muldoon on @RTERadio1's Drivetime: rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

I only discovered I was dyslexic at 32…second year in college as a mature student. Now I’ve been labelled, as it were, I’m less embarrassed asking for help. Before I probably would have had a degree of shame: now I’ve been liberated from that. irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

📣 New article from the Autistic School Staff Project📣 Here were explore the experiences of autistic teachers in Poland 🇵🇱 Key findings: ☹️ Sensory overload in schools ☹️ Meetings, break duty & covering for absent colleagues can be very problematic 1/2 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Having a neurodiversity& rights-informed understanding of autism, instead of a charity& social care model reduces disadvantages autistic teachers experience.Addressing inclusion holistically,schools can be more welcoming to neurodivergent staff and pupils. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dublin Pride: Ireland’s only LGBTQ+ salon, where you’ll never have to answer; ‘Do you have a girlfriend?’ again irishtimes.com/life-style/202…

Fitness Inclusion Games to take place in Dublin via @RTENews rte.ie/news/regional/…

Pride is a protest & we should all protest. Budapest Pride ban at centre of Orbán's culture war via @RTENews. #pride #prideisaprotest #letmebeme rte.ie/news/europe/20…

Suicidal? “All the time. Highly sensitive people are much more susceptible to environmental information. Put them in an environment where they’re browbeaten, they’ll..want to kill themselves, where they’re..championed and listened to, they thrive.” irishtimes.com/culture/music/…

On Dr. Niall Muldoon: "There is no child specific budget – on health they can’t tell us what their spending is… we need to know the data, so that we can change things. We need to listen to children and take their solutions" Watch live: oireachtas.ie