
Vishnu Nair
@vishinair5
Language, Disability and Race, Queer, From the land of coconut chutney and chutnified English. Tweets are my own.
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02-04-2021 21:17:18
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The election of Donald Trump is a dark day for reproductive healthcare, the rights of refugees and the future of our planet. As we speak, people are being slaughtered in Gaza and Lebanon. Our demands on our governments have not changed: stop enabling genocide and end all arms




MP 💙Rachael Maskell MP has submitted an Early Day Motion calling on the Government to introduce a Gaza Family Visa Scheme to enable Palestinians from Gaza to reunite with their family members and seek temporary sanctuary in the UK until it is safe to return.


Huge thank you to our speakers @jiya_pandya Vishnu Nair and Dr Ankita Mishra for sharing their brilliant papers and to our BSL interpreter Bharti. Thank you all for joining and for everyone's patience with the tech issues. We look forward to welcoming you to future events in 2025

Congratulations to Katie Munday - Autistic and Living the Dream and all of us in autism community who helped to #StopSpectrum10K. Today the team announced the cancellation of the study. See the report from Hopkins Van Mil and Karen Leneh Buckle and a reflective blog by Simon Baron-Cohen. autismresearchcentre.com/projects/spect…


Celebrating International Mother Language Day on Friday Uni of Reading & how multilingualism has changed in Reading a research with Holly Joseph. Exceptional - Vishnu Nair beautiful poem that touched everyone's heart, & it brought out how profound languages are to identity.



Our next seminar is 18th March at 1pm and it's online so anyone can join! We are welcoming Drasko Kascelan from University of Essex, who will talk about language mixing in neurodevelopmental conditions with Vishnu Nair as host. All welcome - register here: forms.office.com/e/p2ZrmiSzq4



Using critical psychology and network governance, we build a distinctive critique of how education policy in the UK mobilises the psy-complex to reinscribe deficit accounts of children and young people. new paper with Tom Delahunty available now! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…




🌊🌴Building bridges across oceans! Researchers from Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences at Reading Vishnu Nair & Emma Pagnamenta are enhancing speech and language therapy services in the Caribbean. Read how local-led capacity building is creating change: 🔗rdg.ac/4lNo0V0 #GlobalHealth #Neurodiversity

#SLT should critically examine colonial ideologies that create & perpetuate marginalisation. Helpful intro by Vishnu Nair to coloniality & setting direction for decolonising SLT to deliver linguistic/disability justice. m.soundcloud.com/speechpatholog…