Neuro Emergent: A Field Trip to PHAME

In this episode:

NEURODIVERSITY NEWS (2:25)

Sweden study shows girls are “catching up” with boys in autism diagnoses

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-and-men-are-almost-equally-as-likely-to-be-diagnosed-as-autistic-by/

Medical journal retracts paper on leucovorin as autism treatment

https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/largest-leucovorin-autism-trial-retracted/

https://gizmodo.com/what-rfk-jr-s-unproven-autism-treatment-could-mean-for-autistic-patients-and-their-families-2000717516

NIH director contradicts Kennedy on vaccine-autism link

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nih-boss-defies-rfk-jr-on-vaccines-and-autism/

$22 million grant for “profound autism” research

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/marcus-autism-center-conduct-largest-study-autism-spectrum-behavior-us/XKSFZ4S55ZHNNIOUAGZVOIG6CY/

https://triblive.com/news/world/as-some-people-push-to-make-profound-autism-its-own-diagnosis-this-family-is-raising-twins-with-it/

• Profound Autism Alliance: https://www.profoundautism.org/

INTERVIEW: LUDMILA PRASLOVA ON CHRONODIVERSITY (8:34)

Ludmilla Praslova is a psychology professor at Vanguard University and the author of the The Canary Code: A Guide to Neurodiversity, Dignity, and Intersectional Belonging at Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2024). She recently wrote in Psychology Today about an overlooked aspect of neurodiversity called chronodiversity, or natural variation in human sleep patterns.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-different/202602/chronodiversity-a-forgotten-aspect-of-neurodiversity

INTERVIEW: CARRIE SIAHPUSH OF P.H.A.M.E. ACADEMY (30:01)

Carrie Siahpush is executive director of the PHAME Academy in Portland, a nonprofit organization that provides arts education and performance opportunities to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The school was founded in 1984 as an artistic complement to the Special Olympics and its focus on athletics.

https://www.phamepdx.org/