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MASSIVE CONGRATS TO HANNAH SPENCER!

Greens win Gorton & Denton by-election. 💚

New autism diagnosis under consideration by experts Proposed category would apply to autistic children over eight who have little to no functional language, an IQ below 50 and need 24-hour care

What are your thoughts? Experts consider new “profound autism” diagnosis for children 8+ who have little to no functional language, an IQ >50 needing 24-hour care" Autism is like a spider chart with a large spectrum of need—there is real danger here
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Partnership Working Report - My Home Life England

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Starlings up & off in #Penzance this morning #murmuration

Beautiful morning in #Penzance #Cornwall

Teaching Isn’t Obsolete, but Our Assignments Might Be What matters isn’t what produced the text, it’s how students change through interaction. Behaviorism helps us trace that change through performance.

"If we define learning as behavior, what’s the point? Once you identify the expected behavior, ChatGPT is going to replicate it. So what can faculty do that ChatGPT can’t?" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

Why AI Gets Learning Right and Cognitive Science Doesn’t What AI reveals about how we teach: When machines fall short, we adjust. When students do, we blame. Here's what that says about learning and instruction.

Why AI Gets Learning Right and Cognitive Science Doesn’t
Behavior is behavior: What students do reflects the conditions we create. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-...

(PDF) PROMOTING POSITIVE BEHAVIOR: ANALYZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GOOD BEHAVIOR GAME IN CLASSROOM SETTINGS PDF | This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the Good Behavior Game (GBG) on classroom behavior and students' perceptions of their abilities and... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

PROMOTING POSITIVE BEHAVIOR: ANALYZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE GOOD BEHAVIOR GAME IN CLASSROOM SETTINGS www.researchgate.net/publication/...

When Your AI Assistant Is Much Smarter Than You As AI eclipses us, what becomes of our intellect’s purpose and accountability?

“The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.”
– B.F. Skinner www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

One from #Penzance today

Is Psychiatry Keeping Us Sick? Something is deeply wrong with the mental health system. Instead of leading to recovery, it often perpetuates cycles of dependency on therapy, medication, and diagnoses. Psychiatric diagnoses, which a...

If, through behavioral therapy, people learn the coping skills to control impulses, foster positive behavior, and build executive functions like organization and time management, they can manage their ADHD to the point that they don’t exhibit symptoms www.nirandfar.com/psychiatry-k...

The WW2 experiment to make pigeon-guided missiles - BBC Reel

BF Skinner and the value of crackpot ideas www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p... #bfskinner

People standing for parliament should have to prove they’re competent YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and then they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence. youtu.be/JhUcUt15eB8?...

Psychotropic deprescribing in ethnic minority individuals with a learning disability requires a more nuanced approach Health inequalities are pervasive across our healthcare system, affecting different patients in different ways and requiring an increasingly nuanced approach to tackle them. For individuals from an et...

Psychotropic deprescribing in ethnic minority individuals with a learning disability requires a more nuanced approach pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/opin...

Independent commission to transform social care launched An independent commission has been launched by the government to help rebuild the adult social care system to meet the current and future needs of the population.

Independent commission to transform social care launched www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/governm...

Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results - Nature Human Behaviour Large language models (LLMs) can synthesize vast amounts of information. Luo et al. show that LLMs—especially BrainGPT, an LLM the authors tuned on the neuroscience literature—outperform experts in pr...

Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Five reasons why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning disabilities The Mental Health Bill reaches its second reading in the House of Lords tonight. This is a quick post to explain why it won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning di…

Lucy Series looks at why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop Autistic people and people with Learning Disabilities being detained.

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Dr Pat Friman Ted Talk

Dr Pat Friman’s TedX Omaha Talk youtu.be/lPQwvDUc-iM?...

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