Steven Kapp
@drstevenkapp
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Autistic ADHDer autism, #neurodiversity researcher. Disability rights advocate. Developmental psychologist; Senior Lecturer @uop_psychology He/him. Views my own
Portsmouth, UK
Joined July 2018
Academic articles should be accessible. I have made nearly all my publications (on autism, such as supporting autistic people's quality of life in practical domains e.g. employment, neurodiveristy and identity, traits and stimming) freely available here:
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My School is hiring 2 full-time academics on permanent contracts: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Applied Sport Psychology https://t.co/dDCKXmZeHh & L/SL in Forensic Psychology https://t.co/ydmBK6PWOh Exciting opportunity to join unique School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences
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Thanks, but don't trust AI. ;) I don't essentialize communication but emphasize interaction happens *between* ppl: https://t.co/yoIHg9wp3e I have long said (e.g. here in 2011) "How can a 'deficit' in 'reciprocity' or 'relationships' lie in just 1 person?"
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"Our findings point to previously unknown strengths in autistic children who are minimally speaking across statistical learning and social attention, suggesting that spoken language differences in this population might be unrelated to these domains" https://t.co/YL6YX3GQIs free
nature.com
Scientific Reports - Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers
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I delivered a webinar for AutCom on Challenging the ‘Profound Autism’ Label: https://t.co/vBr3ZFko8l (recording). Subtyping into "profound autism" lacks scientific validity & weakens community power for us to seek the systems change autistic people need for personalized support.
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Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) is welcomed to Israel by a government minister. I’m banned. I’m a British Jew and a member of the Board of Deputies. Israel needs to ask itself: who are its allies, and what message does this send?
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Another replication: "autistic adults were more prosocial than non-autistic adults towards more socially distant others" https://t.co/GCT8tGAoZO "While autistic people often face challenges navigating their social worlds, autism can also be associated with more generosity"
journals.sagepub.com
Social discounting describes the tendency to give fewer resources to those we feel less close to. Previous work suggests autistic individuals show a flatter dec...
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The UK created the eugenics movement and is a country relatively nonchalant about death (e.g. people walking their dogs in cemeteries as a daily habit, look on the bright side of death, the origin of Death Cafés) and its "assisted dying" policy will kill many disabled people.
Learning disabilities? Autistic? Downs Syndrome? Don't worry you too can have an assisted death according to Lord Falconer
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Led by @JennyMaiPhanPhD @JohnJJShaw Flavio Acevedo, with @sara_lil_plants @bethaniley @magdalena_gh @SammieTy @siukityeung_res @helenahhartmann and I
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New free @FORRTproject Team Neurodiversity paper, Bridging Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship: How Shared Values Can Guide Best Practices for Research Integrity, Social Justice, and Principled Education, in neurodiversity and social justice special issue: https://t.co/YQX0vgizlc
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Not all people conform to socially constructed norms, nor should they have to. Neurodiversity, the natural variation in human brains and cognition, is fundamental to understanding human behavior,...
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This social regression that we have seen really needs to be put under a microscope because really it should be a lot less acceptable than it is to be like "reasonable accomodations for disabilities and are bad actually, here's my uneducated opinion"
Calling extra exam time ‘unhealthy’ for autistic & ADHD kids is like calling ramps ‘unhealthy’ for wheelchair users. It’s not coddling — it’s access. The problem isn’t the accommodation, it’s a system built for one kind of brain and punishing to everyone else.
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Nominations for public members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee are through Monday. This is an important opportunity for U.S. citizens to influence national autism policy; we need good research & advocacy that advance needs of autistic ppl:
federalregister.gov
The Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking nominations of individuals to serve as non-federal public members on the Interagency Autism Coordinating...
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Autism advocacy has changed in recent decades, but fundamentally the dynamic is still that a demagogue preys on fears to offer false causation & 'treatment'. Somehow at a time when trust in government has plummeted, people listen to someone with no scientific or medical training
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PROBABLY THIS IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY ON NASDAQ — ACCORDING TO WARREN BUFFETT-STYLE ANALYSIS When Warren Buffett said, “Price is what you pay, value is what you get,” he was describing companies exactly like NextNRG Inc ($NXXT). It’s a business producing real revenue,
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Final call for post-docs looking to contribute to this important project! Deadline is end of Monday.
👉Are you a post-doc? 👉 Passionate about improving care for people with learning disabilities? 👉Interested in communication? The ICALD study has 2 jobs: one based in London and one in Manchester. See links👇 https://t.co/LGKfdvM1TI
https://t.co/lS2TvpzH4K
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.@SingaporeAir have agreed to replace what they broke (having tried to deflect responsibility on to @AerLingus for something they broke) and now have informed me that it's standard practice to get people to sign limited release tags to acknowledge "mutual expectations"
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Papers related to my talk include a critique of "profound autism" and functioning labels: https://t.co/H6eK6ZxBIV The strengths of speech divergence: https://t.co/QDkXK8W3s9 and Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: https://t.co/nvePMvdwaL
frontiersin.org
While the autism diagnosis emphasizes “deficits” in social communication, the article advances that sensory–movement differences underpin autism through a re...
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I am proud to teach Neurodiversity Studies, supervise, and tutor for the MSc in Psychology and Learning Disability at the University of Portsmouth. It was great to meet recent graduates in person and hear about how the course has helped to advance their careers.
Our MSc in Psychology and Learning Disability is part-time & online, so students may meet in person for 1st time at graduation as below. It’s not too late to apply for this term, although next week is induction week & teaching week after, so act quickly! https://t.co/q3xpZ9WBhM
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Someone who practiced medicine without a license, chemically castrating autistics, has access to vaccination data despite lack of scientific background & skill. The antivax+ movement belongs to moral model and falsely blames parents for their decisions: https://t.co/L9jjrHSqm7
medpagetoday.com
David Geier can remotely access identifiable data from the old Vaccine Safety Datalink
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"This state-of-the-art review deconstructs problems with autism sublabels such as 'profound autism' and low- and high-functioning labels." #autism #AutismAcceptance #neurodiversity
My review article critiquing the scientific and social validity and feasibility of “profound autism” is out, free: Profound Concerns about Profound Autism: Dangers of Severity Scales and Functioning Labels for Support Needs @EducSci_MDPI @MDPIOpenAccess
https://t.co/TGiO34Jydk
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Jiedi Lei is hiring 3 postodcs (2 years w/ opp. to renew) to join a new @UniofOxford project to develop a strengths-based assessment toolkit for neurodivergent children & youth. Apps due Sept 3 at 12 pm. https://t.co/GEKEFfabWz Early Years x 2 https://t.co/1LptDLXQ3T Adolescence
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"older autistic women experience intense emotional distress when engaging with healthcare"--1 quote: "I can feel like waves fear coming up through the body, it’s like pulsing...that’s why I can’t think straight when I’m talking to the GP" https://t.co/fyavSF2nuk interviews, free
journals.sagepub.com
Autistic women experience a higher prevalence of physical and mental health conditions compared with autistic men and non-autistic women, plus greater premature...
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