It's the start of #AutismAcceptanceWeek and if you want to understand a bit more how we interact with #SocialMedia, I recently co-presented with Autistic Adults Online on this for Autistica bit.ly/3JMTDMj.

Our @autistica webinar on social media and how it should improve to better support autistic people is now on Youtube! With Nelya Koteyko Jack Welch ACLIP belenpena Simona Manni #AutismAcceptanceWeek youtube.com/watch?v=bzFah9…

It’s Autism Acceptance Week, show your support by amplifying autistic voices so that together we can celebrate our differences and make the world a richer, more inclusive place.  #AutismAcceptanceWeek #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptanceWeek2023

We are offering a free training workshop for software developers and UX researchers/designers on how to create more inclusive platforms for autistic people. We will present hands-on methods and findings from the Autistic Adults Online project. Please help us spread the word!

A FREE workshop on #CoDesign with autistic people. What's not to love?

Last month we run a workshop for HCI MA students at City, University of London led by Dr Belen Pena to present and discuss the participatory design methods developed in this research. Students did a great job! You can read about it here 👇 autisticadultsonline.com/2023/04/20/par…

Check out this article on our research and how social media platforms are letting down autistic users. To follow, we will share the paper presented today at ACM CHI Conference 2023 by Dr Belen Pena! qmul.ac.uk/media/news/202… #AutismAwarenessMonth #CHI2023 #Neurodiversity #inclusion

Today Dr Belen Pena and John Vines were at ACM CHI Conference presenting our research paper "My Perfect Platform Would Be Telepathy" - Reimagining the Design of Social Media with Autistic Adults. You can access the read the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35… #CHI2023

Online conference for anyone who is interested in our project results🙂. We will co-present findings with our participants and will have two workshops - discussing linguistic data and methods and the design ones. Pls register here eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-adu…

We are at the Queen Mary University of London #FestivalOfCommunities today presenting our research project to the public! Lots of fun activities in the festival in London, Stepney Green Park!

All ready for our End of Project Conference tomorrow!

We are working with Autistica to produce guidance to adapt online platforms to better support autistic users. Come along to this in person event to discover our toolkit of best practice and policy brief! There will be talks, an exhibition, and lunch! eventbrite.co.uk/e/autistic-adu…

Our project report is out bit.ly/3sRa8m3 Thank you to all our research participants, autistic advisory board and scientific advisory board members @autistica Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

A survey link to a new study at QM. Please share widely! We particularly welcome participation from non-speaking people as well as individuals from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups as they are under-represented in autism research. qmulbusiness.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4S…

Do you use social media to talk about your interest/s? Please participate in our survey and interviews (last question on the survey form). Please repost to help us reach a diverse group of young people!