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Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why asking what causes autism is the wrong question

...and to value autistic children and the families they live in. Asking what causes autism is asking the wrong question. Asking how we as a society value the skills, abilities and qualities of autistic children and adults is a much better one.[The Conversation] This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article....
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Childhood in the Digital Age
OpenLearn Ireland

Childhood in the Digital Age

...adults keep up? Does screen time lead to increased distractibility, obesity and loneliness? Or does it offer opportunities for autonomy and experimentation beyond anything imagined when I was growing up? Childhood is a time of rapid change. Dr Socialising - Childhood in the Digital Age (#3/5) How is digital technology changing children’s relationships and shaping their...
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Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...adults who respect, accept, like and really listen to them is a new life experience. These relationships can offer the young people new perspectives on approaching, developing and managing quality relationships of their own. This free course, Professional relationships with young people, explores different approaches in developing relationships and working practices which...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...adults and teenagers. The need for a declaration of a climate emergency is to mobilise the rapid actions needed to avert ecological catastrophe. Through a concerted campaign of civil disobedience, XR is in this sense taking a moral stance against the immorality of unsustainable human consumption and political inaction. The facts of climate and environmental breakdown are...
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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...Care Bear teddy, which they brought along in case they encountered any fellow Care Bears in the clouds who might want to chat! Just like how we process information differently, we can also remember things differently. The type of memories that we have and the age that we have them may be partly explained by the part of the world where we come from. Remembering...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...adult social care – implications for the social work role to assess need and plan support’, Journal of Social Work Practice, 36(4), pp. 427–439...Exploring critical social work practice: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by the K355 course team. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting
Money & Business

It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting

...care about the cost. The 2600 consumers who used the electric light were less than 1 and one quarter per cent of the company's customers. The company's increase in meters for the September quarter of 1891 over that of 1890 was 3490, so that they had more new consumers in one quarter than there were electric light consumers in the whole of their district. There was plenty...
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Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public
Health, Sports & Psychology

Creating bridges: The importance of sharing research findings with the public

...care, where the findings of some research studies may directly facilitate a behaviour change that might be beneficial to the individual and the public. For example, very early in the course of the pandemic we recognised that the risk of dying because of COVID-19 is twice as high for obese people than people with healthy BMI. The question we should be asking is: whose job...
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