Dawn Wickenden

HCPC Clinical Scientist (Audio STP), Vestib-obsessed and loud about disability | 🦻🏻😵‍💫🧠🌿 | she/they, views my own

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

free congo. please, don’t forget them. never stop speaking about what the women and children are enduring.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

En route to the GN Complex Needs Educational Day 🦻🏻
(I hope they define complex needs)

[Big Red Celt @BigRedCeltTT]

While people point out Greta was on the ship, it needs to be screamed louder that there was also a member of the European Union’s Parliament aboard: Rima Hassan

Israel just kidnapped a foreign government official in international waters on humanitarian aid to a sovereign people.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Actually finally met @adhd_alice after 4 years and dragging each other through the STP as internet pals! we survived and now we thrive 💪🏻

[Alex Catt @CllrAlexCatt]

Imagine posting this after announcing you are slashing PIP payments for disabled people

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Hello! Still alive. Much less to tweet about when you’re out of academia and no longer spending half your free time in appointments and the other half waiting on emails from support services. 😂

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Red weather warning :) extraordinary threat to life :) all patients cancelled tomorrow :) buses cancelled from 8am to (at the earliest) 6pm :) we still have to go in :)))))

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

i love my job and it is SO rewarding, but because of some bureaucratic issues i can’t do any vestib, and the only way it’s even been considered is if i’d be willing to do a saturday clinic (on top of my full time hours) at a different hospital (1h commute). 🥲😢

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

How my watch knew I was getting sick before I did

A thread on heart rate variability (HRV) and resting heart rate predicting illness

1/10 🧵

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Had the pleasure of meeting Vittorio Angelone at a charity do once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny. He’s the guy.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

And!!! please be aware, self-diagnosis should be taken seriously but approached with care. Formal diagnosis is often inaccessible in various ways, and also takes a lot of energy/effort for sometimes little to no benefit.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Audiologists! Two of our favourite things to do are listening and having all the answers to help people communicate aren’t they? IMO this podcast episode should be required listening for everyone.
@TheADHDadults https://t.co/d2YLtUGat3

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

It’s evidence based and ALSO personal experience, it’s the perfect condensed educational tool. Despite the title they also talk a bit about autism/auDHD, dyslexia, and misophonia (and what sounds like hyperacusis) as well.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Also if you’ve had difficulty in any facet of life for that long but ESPECIALLY academia, it’s v likely to have a mental health impact. Again, self-advocacy, students are more aware of how they can get help than ever.

[Dawn Wickenden @dwick_audio]

Adding to point 2, there are a LOT of kids who work ‘differently’ or struggle and it goes unnoticed by caregivers/teachers for various reasons. When they realise they can get support to level the playing field (and play to their strengths), they have the power to self-advocate!

[HelenPryce @HelenPryce]

NHS hearing units misdiagnosed thousands of children and ‘did nothing’

https://t.co/3sPpjMVT8k

[richard @richard_normal]

the geniuses at the LAPD noticed a medical diagnostic clinic had high energy usage so they raided it for no reason and a cop had his gun looney tunes style stolen from him by powerful magnets.

[Dr Jo Billington @MsJoBillington]

My god. I despair.

The dehumanisation of neurodivergent folk runs so deep in academia. So much so that the realisation that autistic people have feelings is a ‘revelation’.