New @camhnews.bsky.social study: RCT of mindfulness for autistic adults. Program was feasible, acceptable & changes reported were only evident in those in the mindfulness arm. Working together with #autistic folks to design interventions for them matters. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

In this month's blog for the H-CARDD newsletter I focused on community - how to build it, and maintain it and accessibility considerations tinyurl.com/BlogJune2025

Please do join our online event next on 25th June: 'Siblings, Disability and Care: Anthropological and Co-Created Perspectives'. With @pblock8.bsky.social Helen Ries Dima Kassem @nikitahayden.bsky.social @tomjryan99.bsky.social
Programme here: tinyurl.com/mr2ejrt7
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Good morning! Rising up for mental health #CAMHSunriseChallenge today with my team the Sunrise Superstars. You can check out the various tools and resources we have developed to support mental health and developmental disabilities here www.camh.ca/en/science-a...

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I'm super excited that my first first-author journal is published in Autism in Adulthood!

"Improving Substance-Use Services for Autistic Adults: Insights and Recommendations from Autistic Adults"

w/ @emergentdivergence.com , Chris Papadopoulos & Tanya Adkin.
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

Let's make support for #caregivers a key policy linked to economic wellbeing in the #Canadian #election2025! @cdncaregiving.bsky.social Let's make #caregiving a public policy issue in our #election2025! Heather Aldersey Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence theconversation.com/governments-...

Today is National Caregiver Day. Grateful to all the ppl who support me as a working caregiver & grateful to all the caregivers I get to work with @camhnews.bsky.social - Shout out to Anna & Dewlyn Lobo who talked about caring for each other in this Defy Dementia podcast pod.co/defy-dementi...

It is important that we understand how healthcare continued to evolve for folks with intellectual disabilities during the pandemic. Our @jidr-wiley.bsky.social study looked at health services pre-pandemic and then over the first two years of COVID across Ontario. Open Access

Really enjoyed discussing our research on healthcare and autism with @mengchuanlai.bsky.social as part of the new #ICESOntario podcast #Disability #AutRes

learning to better care to ppl w #IntellectualDisability #autism starts in med school - our new study led by Gabriel Tarzi shows that med students across Canada want to learn more about how to provide better care & personal experience makes a difference. bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Please see exciting opportunity to join our amazing international team of Associate Editors for the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Please share with anyone who may be interested in applying.

Check out our latest coproduced article!

#inclusiveresearch
#IntellectualDisabilities

You Can't Exclude Us Anymore! A Critical Reflection of Inclusive Research and Teaching Opportunities for People With Intellectual Disabilities in University Settings onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our recent paper led by Gabriel Tarzi in Academic Psychiatry demonstrates how by working together across sectors we can build the capacity of health and social care trainees to support ppl w intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. #AllTeachAllLearn rdcu.be/d4iCU

Identifying barriers and facilitators to primary care practitioners implementing health assessments for people with intellectual disability: a Theoretical Domains Framework-informed scoping review #impsci #ImpSciComms

implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

What a lovely summary of my talk last month on antipsychotics and intellectual disability - thanks @profkrc.bsky.social !