CPA/OPA joint letter to Ontario College of Psychologists and Behavioural Analysts re: proposed regulatory changes in Ontario:

A Delphi study of neurodiversity affirming psychology practice with 28 psychologists and autistic adults by @rebeccaflower.bsky.social et al (2025) identifies seven principles for practice, including providing safety to be one’s autistic self and validation of the autistic experience.

In this month's blog for the H-CARDD newsletter I focused on community - how to build it, and maintain it and accessibility considerations tinyurl.com/BlogJune2025

🧠✨ How do neurodivergent young people manage emotional distress—on their own terms?
We have a new paper completed.
(artwork from one of the ND youth who got involved)

When thinking of obsessive-compulsive disorder, you picture behaviors like repetitive hand-washing, flicking light switches on and off and repeatedly arranging small items. But OCD manifests in diverse ways. Here’s what to know.

"Social anxiety and autism can be, in clinician’s language, a differential diagnosis, but in many cases they coexist. You can certainly have social anxiety, but you can be autistic and then you become socially anxious." Dr. @mengchuanlai.bsky.social, at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/talk...

“I’m not feeling alone in my experiences”: How newly diagnosed autistic adults engage with a neurodiversity-affirming “Welcome Pack”

journals.sagepub.com...

“Autistic people are often held to neurotypical standards of menstrual management—without recognition of autism-specific factors such as sensory sensitivities, communication differences and the ways in which information is best conveyed.”

theconversation.com/autistic-peo... #neurodiversity #autism

CDMRP cuts entire autism research program for FY2025. This is a major blow for #AutismResearch in the U.S. cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2...