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13 October 2026A widely used “autism severity” score, the PAUSS, is built from a psychosis scale — and in young people at risk of psychosis, it may be picking up psychotic symptoms insteadPelizza et al. (2026) tested the PAUSS in 214 young people at high risk of psychosis: near-zero agreement with the AQ, strong links to psychotic symptoms.
12 October 2026South Korea identifies 2.2% of pupils for special education — Kim and Yu ask whether the certification gate is part of the reasonSpecial education in South Korea covers 2.2% of pupils. Kim and Yu (2026) ask if tying certification to welfare, quotas and admissions plays a part.
11 October 2026The Fonagy Review government response: CQC regulation promised with no date, a letter instead of an advertising ban, and a proposed price list for 2027Fonagy review government response: CQC regulation of ADHD and autism assessments promised with no date, a tariff consultation, and a letter, not an advert ban.
9 October 2026The Fonagy Review final report finds the diagnosis gate on nearly every page — then replaces the key rather than removing it, and measures success by the system’s own yardstick: participationThe Fonagy Review’s final report calls for a “needs-led plus diagnosis” system. What it says, its ten recommendations, what the press got wrong, the ICB data.
9 October 2026A childhood ADHD diagnosis is tied to lower employment at 24 to 32 — the pay penalty, once selection into work and the measurement are both corrected, can no longer be told from zeroA US study ties a childhood ADHD diagnosis to lower employment at 24 to 32. The pay gap among those in work cannot be told from zero.
8 October 2026Profound autism is 16.5% of autistic eight-year-olds — or 8%, or 32%, because nearly half the records needed to say are missingA CDC-led study puts profound autism at 16.5% of autistic eight-year-olds in the US, but nearly half lacked the assessments the definition needs.
7 October 2026More than one in five autistic pupils had been excluded or suspended by 14 — and exclusion explains only a small part of what followsBy 14, 21.9% of autistic children in a UK cohort had been excluded or suspended, parents reported. Exclusion explained little of their later distress.
6 October 2026ADHD medication made no measurable difference to school grades — for the children whose prescription depended on which clinic they attendedA Norwegian registry study of 6,255 children with ADHD found no causal effect of medication on school grades for those at the margin of treatment.
5 October 2026The government’s neurodiversity panel says support should follow need, not diagnosis — and the government agrees with the wordsThe DWP’s Expert Academic Panel on Neurodiversity says support should follow need, not diagnosis. The government backs the principle; the deadlines wait.
2 October 2026Autism-affirming eating disorder care runs into a longstanding fear of accommodating the disorderTwelve UK eating disorder clinicians on what blocks autism-affirming care: fear of accommodating the disorder, and treating the manual as the evidence.
1 October 2026One in four pupils giving a yes-or-no answer called themselves neurodivergent — and were more likely to vape, smoke and use drugs25.1% of pupils answering yes or no said they were neurodivergent, and were likelier to vape, smoke and use drugs. The question bundled four labels.
30 September 2026Autistic and non-autistic observers judged autistic suspects alike — a forensic test of double empathyIn two experiments, shared diagnosis made no difference to how observers judged autistic suspects. Behaviour that defied expectations did.
29 September 2026Three ADHD “biotypes” — which the study itself says may be points on a continuumA JAMA Psychiatry study named three ADHD “biotypes”. Its own limitations say they may be points on a continuum — and it does not test treatment.
28 September 2026PIP for autism and ADHD has more than tripled among young people — and deprivation now explains less of who gets itPIP for ADHD and autism among 16–24s has more than tripled since 2019. The Nuffield Trust finds deprivation now explains less of who receives it.
25 September 2026To be diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, you have to prove a childhood you can’t reliably rememberAdult ADHD diagnosis depends on recalling your own childhood. The research says adults who had ADHD as children tend to underreport it.
24 September 2026Parents want affirming reports but need deficit ones — when neuro-affirming diagnostics run into a system that pays on documented deficitFifteen parents on autism report language: deficit framing wounds, and it works — because support so often depends on documented deficit.
23 September 2026The National Autistic Society has reviewed 83 papers to say autism is genetic — and the reason it had to is the storyThe National Autistic Society reviewed 83 papers to state autism is genetic. The finding is old. A charity having to publish it is the news.
22 September 2026Scotland shelves LDAN bill for being too slow to pass, says the government that has had it for five yearsAfter five years of development, Scotland has dropped the LDAN bill for being too slow to pass — and offered policy where rights were promised.
21 September 2026JAMA has mapped what “neurodivergent” denotes in the research — and suggests reserving the word for identity, not diagnosis134 studies, 151,134 participants — and a fifth never specified a diagnosis. JAMA has measured what ‘neurodivergent’ means in research.
18 September 2026Diagnosed at 35, burnt out long before — what autistic burnout looks like in a country that still half-believes Bettelheim67 French autistic adults describe burnout built from sensory load, compulsory camouflaging and a system still half-shaped by psychoanalysis. Diagnosed at 35.
17 September 2026Fathers of autistic children report more distress than mothers — and the more affirming they are, the heavier it getsFathers of autistic children reported more distress than mothers — and the more neurodiversity-affirming the father, the higher the reported burden.
16 September 2026Parents rank ABA last on ethics — and the ones whose children had it are the least critical of allParents rated ABA far below OT and speech therapy on ethics — but parents whose children used ABA rated it higher than those who didn’t. Both findings stand.
15 September 2026“Guarded, poor alliance, flat affect” — the clinical shorthand that is now training the machines to misunderstand autismClinical shorthand like “poor alliance” encodes unexamined relational norms — and the records it fills are now training data for mental health AI.
14 September 2026The Right to Choose still exists — the NHS has just stopped funding itNHS England’s 2026/27 payment scheme lets ICBs cap Right to Choose ADHD and autism assessments. The legal right survives. The funded reality doesn’t.

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