An intresting participatory design project at the RCA and Imperial:
Designing a better supermarket experience for autistic people.
Email Karina at [email protected] if you are interested!

Last week's excellent #CRAEwebinar , “They need to know that non-speaking doesn’t mean non-thinking” with Luci Rose, is now available on our YouTube channel

youtu.be/I3yOn7mV0wk

Pain in Autism - CRAE webinar with Bethany Donaghy and David Moore #CRAEwebinar #archive youtube.com/watch?v=xgt4Mb…

LAHP-funded series of seminars 🥳
23rd April 2024, Tue, 1 pm, Room G10, Chandler House, UCL
Speaker:  Amy Pearson (University of Durham)
Title:  Understanding autistic masking as a response to stigma
Organisers:  Alexandra Perovic, Georgia Pavlopoulou & Nausicaa Pouscoulous

Adult participants sought for a 15-minute survey on:

Exploring the Autism Diagnosis Pathway for Late-Diagnosed Autistic Women, Trans Men and Gender Diverse People

Study link:
qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_8e…

Law firms offer their staff autism & ADHD testing:
lawcareers.net/Explore/News/L…

Research: disclosure is complex. Organizations rather than autistic individuals, should take responsibility for facilitating disclosure (like this) and improving outcomes.
liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

🌟 CRAE is on Instagram! 📸
With our thanks to Fae and Lucy for making this happen.
Follow instagram.com/crae_ioe

“I spend pretty much my whole life working around sensory difficulties, ... very often missing out on things I could enjoy”

‘A storm of post-it notes’: Experiences of perceptual capacity in autism and ADHD

Irvine et al (2024)
doi.org/10.1177/275463…

It is World Autism Awareness Day, and the start of World Autism Acceptance Week!

An excerpt from #GirlUnmasked . 💜🧡💛🩷

Back from the Easter break to share this amazing guide from Amy Pearson and the team. Let's acknowledge #AutismAcceptanceWeek 2024 and highlight how important it is to amplify autism community voices, not just this week... but every week.

Improve assessment
Deliver post-dx support
Tackle misaligned environments
Train MH professionals
Design autism-specific MH pathways
Research autism-informed MH mechanisms

Mandy, W. (2022) doi.org/10.1177/136236…
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