Anna Robinson

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Snr Lecturer Autism & Neurodiversity Psychotherapist #Psychotherapy Researcher in Mental Health, #Autism, #Trauma. Emotional psychology. #PGR Director University of Strathclyde 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚 The Smiths 💚

What does a drop in funding mean for the future of autism research? Helen Tager-Flusberg, director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University, speaks to Disability Scoop about the impacts and consequences of underfunded research. Read more: bit.ly/4jw6LoX

NIH Autism Research Funding Down 26% Under Trump, Analysis Shows

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to get to the bottom of surging autism rates, but a new analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut funding for such research by double digit...

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After years of trauma for my Autistic teen at physical schools, mainstream & specialist, & for us as a family, we have all benefited from education from home. Recently, he put into words why this was important & shared the idea of his ‘fuel bubble’. a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/03/my-f...

My Fuel Bubble

After years of traumatic experiences for my Autistic teen at physical schools, mainstream and specialist, and for us as a family, we have ...

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This is both tragic, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. Autistic woman with learning disability locked away for 45 years. Eventually freed by the "escape committee” 1000s of similar cases of people detained living in impoverished conditions. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years

“Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

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