For comparison, here in NSW, Australia a diagnosis means a school can get extra funding for that kid. This goes towards hiring assistant teachers etc. No diagnosis = no funding, so the extra support will need to fit within the school’s existing budget. There aren’t many over-funded schools …
Just found this publisher. Can anyone vouch for any of these books? The titles and keywords are encouraging:
“The child involved has a cognitive disability which affects his memory.”
I’d say it counts. Gifs don’t do it justice, and I’m glad they’re being charged as well as fired.
The authors and blurb writers as well.
They’ve got Liane Holliday Willey’s Pretending to be Normal, they’ve got Attwood’s books, they’ve got Aspergirls, they have blurbs for some books from people like Attwood and Silbermann.
It looks like a source of good things.
Includes a positive review of the study by the co-founder of ASAN, although the info doesn’t seem to be on their website yet:
The Nature Neuroscience article can be downloaded from ResearchGate.
Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in autism spectrum disorder
Amanda M. Buch, Petra E. Vértes, Jakob Seidlitz, So Hyun Kim, Logan Grosenick & Conor Liston
Nature Neuroscience volume 26, pages 650–663 (2023)
Just got a heads-up on this one.
Needless to say,
There is nothing there to support this. There are potential side effects, not least of which is locking an autistic child in a capsule for hours at a time.
I do try to keep up on the woo, but it can get exhausting after a while…
Anyway, this is your PSA for the day!
