Blog
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Academic Citations of Stimpunks
A search for “Stimpunks” on Google Scholar yields 65 results. We’ve been cited pretty broadly. It’s always interesting to see where our work ends up. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stimpunks&btnG= Congrats Stimpunks community. Our messages are getting out there. As we state for our “Open Research” pillar: We improve the scientific experience for the disabled and the neurodivergent by…
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Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity
If you watch our YouTube playlist “Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity” you’ll come away well-grounded in neurodiversity and neurodivergent ways of being. Featuring short, accessible, tightly-scripted, animated videos.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for November 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in November.
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We have a chapter in “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”
Our Co-Creative Directors Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren have a chapter on “Cavendish Space” in the book “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”, available now from Routledge. Sensory spaces invite learners to be curious and try new ideas and skills, inspiring imaginative play, creativity and storytelling. This comprehensive…
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for October 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in October. Week 40 Week 41 Week 42 Week 43 Week 44
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A Meditation for My Neurokin
Ashes to ashes Dust to dust Bend, shape, mask I must, I must
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Grief, Climate Crisis, Earth Grief, and Neurodivergence By Peyton Belunek
I was on my daily walk this morning, early to avoid the heat of the day and the roar of lawnmowers and the rumble and cacophony of the trash truck. Per usual, I was adorned with my noise canceling headphones with an audiobook keeping me gentle company. Frances Weller’s words in his esteemed work The…
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Free The Stim: Exploring Stimming For Physically Disabled People
In this blog I aim to explore the barriers to stimming for physically disabled people and why the limitations of our bodies should not inhibit our expression.
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The Incredible Inconvenience of the Neurodivergent to the “Science of Learning”: You’ll Never See Us Through Your Complexity Controls
Neurodivergent people are treated as noise to be filtered out in most studies supporting the “science of learning”. We are discounted as outliers. Our needs and ways of being are deemed too inconvenient to consider. So, the vast majority of studies just ignore us.
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Stimpunks.org Changelog for May 2025
Our website is a living document that is always changing and growing. Here are some changes we made to the website in May.
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Professor Guy Claxton on the Science of Learning
In this talk, Guy Claxton warns against the scientism and epistemic injustice of “The Science of Learning” and proposes something very much aligned with our notions of collaborative niche construction, toolbelt theory, collaboration, and iteration. These contribute to what Claxton calls “epistemic apprenticeship”.
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Niche Construction and Toolbelt Theory: Developing the Tools and Terroir of Coping and Learning
Niche Construction focuses on shaping the environment. Toolbelt Theory emphasizes personal tool selection. Together, they promote autonomy, adaptability, and personalized learning experiences.
