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Kim Mears

@kimmears.bsky.social

Interested in all things neurodiversity - love learning. Completed a masters in education researching speech therapy practice and semi-speaking. Link to paper here https://oro.open.ac.uk/102586/ (she/her) Book due out on exploring semi speaking June 26

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Kim Mears@kimmears.bsky.social · last yr.

Almost a year & almost £3000 raised. This ebooklet is still available. To get it donate to a charity supporting aid in Gaza & send proof of donation to ndebooklet@outlook.com. @commonsenseslt.bsky.social @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social & many more. Minimum donation £8 pls. Thank you

Kim Mears@kimmears.bsky.social · 2y ago

In July last year a wonderful group of people came together to create an ebooklet on neurodiversity to raise money for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Since then we have raised over £2000. Now more than ever the people of Gaza need our help. To get a copy see below. @commonsenseslt.bsky.social

Front page of booklet called ways of being knowing and doing.
Kim Mears@kimmears.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking forward to running a workshop on autonomous communication & neurodiversity (2nd June). Will be sharing lots of fabulous research & lived experiences with references links. See below for the workshop tix & the recording - available for 3 months. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...

Neurodiversity and autonomous communication

This webinar will explore and discuss neurodiversity and it’s relevance to communication and AAC for autistic individuals.

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Kim Mears@kimmears.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to be asked and really looking forward to this programme. The group is so valuable. Come along if you can.

Draško Kašćelan@drasko-kascelan.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share the MuLaVaN reading group programme for July-September 2025. Many valuable papers to be discussed and an invited talk by @kimmears.bsky.social titled "Semi-speaking and the neurodiversity paradigm: A challenge to dominant discourses in speech and language therapy".

Widow's Bay DSA@gonebabygone.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
Lisa Chapman@commonsenseslt.bsky.social · last yr.

a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/03/defi... Every individual within a community matters to the 'being' of that community. A community that others and excludes one of its members, is not a community at all.

Defining the meaning of community, or when no one should be cast adrift!

Organisations that profess to represent a given community must at all costs work to include all voices within that community. Mattering is a...

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Lisa Chapman@commonsenseslt.bsky.social · last yr.

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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Stimpunks Foundation@stimpunks.org · last yr.

Weird Pride Day is tomorrow. Our Weird Pride Day celebration is tomorrow in our community Discord. Bring your stories, interests, stims, fashion, mobility devices, & sparklies. Let’s march forth on March Fourth and be proudly weird despite neuronormative domination.

Celebrate Weird Pride Day 2025 with Stimpunks

The 4th of March is Weird Pride Day. This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, and reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us…

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Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition@cypmentalhealth.bsky.social · last yr.

That's why, alongside our partners we have called on the Government to take urgent and scalable action to to close the treatment gap, provide earlier support that prevents problems from escalating and tackle this crisis. Read more here: cypmhc.org.uk/publications...

Future Minds Campaign | CYPMHC

In the face of a major and growing crisis in children and young people’s mental health, we have joined forces with Centre for Mental Health, the Centre for Young Lives, and YoungMinds, with the suppor...

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Joanna Grace PhD@jo3grace.bsky.social · last yr.

I need help. To save a life. I need specific advice/insight - do you have it? Help to protect a child from dying due to a dearth of services and a lot of people saying things should change but no one actually doing anything. (I appreciate more than one of you will

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Robert Chapman@drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 2y ago

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts. "We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally." medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK

Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

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