@aliciawood
Trainer, writer, consultant. Interested in art, human rights, learning disability, mental health and autism. Get in touch if you need brilliant online neuroaffirming autism training. Neurodivergent. Asturias, Spain.
This grim article shows why institutionalised abuse of people with learning disabilities & autistic citizens drags on. Evidence is clear: long term segregation is harmful. This is a squalid example of a profession protecting its own back & not caring about patients www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Today, a quick thread on the vital
www.gov.uk/government/p... and on the very recent response from some Psychiatrists & colleagues, who seems to have misunderstood what it says and means/
#Oliverscampaign
I fully stand by @BaronessHollins & this report
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Baroness Hollins' final report: My heart breaks - solitary confinement in hospital has no therapeutic benefit for people with a learning disability and autistic people
www.gov.uk/government/p...
'A lot of hope out there. More than hope, there's possibility' youtube.com/shorts/CZHdK...
Good to see this attempt to restrain the private firms profiteering from dire children’s social care.
So when will those fat cats and offshore financiers profiteering from abusive and third-rate psychiatric services see a similar crackdown?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Thanks Angela, good to see you ☺️
Brilliant, thanks Jenny
Trying to find the people I followed in the other place. Used this- it´s a bit clunky if you followed lots of people, but still helpful dmuth.medium.com/how-to-migra...
We see the need for an approach to supporting #autistic people that is, by principle, grounded in acceptance of the autistic diversity of being and informed by autistic experience, which we elaborate on in this article, led by @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social +moi
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...