Fiona O'Neill
Always learning at Cork Educate Together Secondary School
Book and Social Media Editor at Child Language Teaching and Therapy
Language and Communication Difference in Children and Young People #DisabilityMatters #DevLangDis #Neurodiversity
- The features of social communication that are useful in the identification of #Autism do not necessarily require intervention - and similarly, individual needs are not always met by diagnostic pathways to help individuals understand themselves better @suereviews.bsky.social at #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social sharing resources to share with young people on #Neurodiversity #Inclusion and #Education at the #CLTTSummerLecture2025 @cltt.bsky.social
- Sue Fletcher Watson's take home messages for practitioners and interested viewers - work with people, and consider values. We have much to learn! #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- The LEANS programme for primary school #Neurodiversity #Inclusion in #Education - Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual @cltt.bsky.social Summer Lecture #CLTTSummer2025
- Read more about the #NEST project to support #Neurodiversity, #Inclusion and #Education in schools through peer groups. Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual @cltt.bsky.social Summer Lecture #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- The #NEST approach - #Neurodiversity Alliance: young people wanted groups to be open to a broad cohort of neurodivergent young people, similar to LGBT groups. Sue Fletcher Watson - @cltt.bsky.social #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- What does the #Neurodiversity paradigm look like in research? Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual @cltt.bsky.social Summer Lecture on #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Education
- When a lay observer - some autistic, and some not - watches a video and is asked to detect who is autistic and who isn't, they may be looking more for indicators of disruption in the interaction rather than specific autistic behaviours. Sue Fletcher Watson at #CLTTSummer2025
- Autistic people weren't talking about distinctive features of autistic communication - people were talking about the values and purpose of communication: recognition, truth, permissiveness and flexibility, information sharing, clarity - #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- Autistic people may be less reliant on external markers of rapport such as back-channelling, gesture and eye contact. In autistic pairs, interactive rapport and social motor synchrony don't seem to be as important - Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual CLTT @cltt.bsky.social Summer Lecture.
- People have a better interactive experience when they know who is autistic and who is not when sharing information in a chain. Rapport is more impacted than information-sharing across neurotypes #CLTTSummerLecture2025
- #CLTTSummerLecture2025 - Research across neurotypes shows that autistic communication is as effective as neurotypical communication when autistic people communicate with other autistic people. Recently replicated findings and new data. Sue Fletcher Watson talks #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Education
- Expect heterogeneity as the norm! This is critical for adopting a #Neurodiversity based approach in research and services, says Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual @cltt.bsky.social Summer lecture. #Inclusion and #Education
- #Neurodiversity and #Disability - this isn't about simply telling people that they aren't disabled, they're different! A neurodiversity approach respects and accepts people as they are, not as society might want them to be - Sue Fletcher Watson @cltt.bsky.social Summer lecture 2025
- Sue Fletcher Watson talks about the misunderstandings that can arise when people talk about the #Neurodiversity paradigm at the Annual CLTT Summer Lecture #Inclusion #Education
- How can we explain #Neurodiversity to children and families? Trees offer a useful metaphor. Fit to environment matters, and there are group and individual. We don't want a monoculture! Sue Fletcher Watson talking #Neurodiversity #Inclusion and #Education at the @cltt.bsky.social Annual Lecture
- The strength of neurodiversity comes from our collective strength - the fact we don't all view and experience things in the same way is a strength of diversity in any group - Sue Fletcher at the Annual CLTT Summer Lecture @cltt.bsky.social
- Neurodiversity offers a paradigm shift from traditional core deficit theories - all humans vary in the way our brains work. We shouldn't be so shocked that we're different from eachother! - Sue Fletcher-Watson at the Annual CLTT Summer lecture #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Education.
- Diagnoses are not as separable from eachother as we traditionally thought - there are tremendous overlaps across experiences and these are not as separable as we might imagine - Sue Fletcher Watson at the Annual CLTT Summer Lecture @cltt.bsky.social #Neurodiversity #Inclusion #Education
- Sue Fletcher-Watson says she is not a fan of "core deficit theories" - theories that take the diversity and complexity of individuals with a particular diagnosis and attempt to link these to supposed "core deficits" within a group - @cltt.bsky.social Annual Summer Lecture #Neurodiversity
- Sue Watson is getting ready to talk to us about Neurodiversity, Communication and Inclusive Education - the framework, what that offers us, particularly in relation to communication and how autistic people communicate for the CLTT Annual Summer Lecture @cltt.bsky.social
- Getting closer! Bookmark this and put it in your calendar!
- Prof Sue Fletcher-Watson joins us for our Summer Lecture. Please share with your networks, thank you. @vjoffe.bsky.social @speechy01.bsky.social @naplic.bsky.social @susanebbels.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @speechandlanguk.bsky.social @ficontextual.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social
- Do we really listen to children and young people with communication needs? Child Language Teaching and Therapy invites submissions of 5000- 8000 words for a forthcoming special issue on listening to children with communication differences. Submit by 18th April 2025 to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cltt
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- I recently had a reminder from Facebook of a similar surge 16 years ago, so I'd say that it's very normal and natural! :)
- @wordaware.bsky.social @sharynnemcleod.bsky.social @speechandlanguage.bsky.social @childrensrights.bsky.social @inclusionoz.bsky.social
- Do we really listen to children and young people with communication needs? Child Language Teaching and Therapy invites submissions of 5000- 8000 words for a forthcoming special issue on listening to children with communication differences. Submit by 18th April 2025 to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cltt
- Do we really listen to children and young people with communication needs? Child Language Teaching and Therapy invites submissions of 5000- 8000 words for a forthcoming special issue on listening to children with communication differences. Submit by 18th April 2025 to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cltt
- Do we really listen to children and young people with communication needs? Child Language Teaching and Therapy invites submissions of 5000- 8000 words for a forthcoming special issue on listening to children with communication differences. Submit by 18th April 2025 to mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cltt
- Many thanks to @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social for spotting an error in an earlier version of this post!
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- Thanks for spotting my error :)
- I really appreciate when authors of self-help books record audioversions of their work - so important for #accessibility for individuals with communication differences who are traditionally underserved in this area. Highly recommend this particular work!
- Check out the free preview of the audiobook format of ‘The Tree That Bends: How a Flexible Mind can help you thrive’. Read by myself, the book will help you to develop the psychological flexibility to break through without breaking you. #TheTreeThatBends #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNWW...
- New Year, New Socials! Looking forward to starting afresh on Bluesky and glad to see so many familiar faces posting here.
