Maggi attended the British Psychological Society Cognitive & Developmental Section Joint Conference in Stoke-on-Trent in September 2019. She gave a talk about whether social play is different when autistic children play with digital and non-digital toys. The slides are available here, and the project website is here.
Maggi attended the Scottish Autism 50th Anniversary Conference in Glasgow and presented her findings from collaborative work with autism practitioners, looking at how technology can facilitate and provide opportunities for social play in autistic children. A copy of the poster can be viewed here.
We have published a new article reporting on parents’ views of technology use by autistic people at home. The paper is free to download from this link and you can cite the paper as: Laurie, M. H., Warreyn, P., Uriarte, B. V., Boonen, C. & Fletcher-Watson, S. (2018). An International Survey of Parental Attitudes to Technology Use…
Back in September, Maggi presented a poster at the British Psychological Society’s Psychology of Education Section annual conference in Edinburgh. Her poster (viewable here- BPS Education poster _ v2) presented teacher reports of what types of technology are used to support autistic pupils in education, including what reasons technology is used, and some teacher attitudes about…
DART student, Maggi Laurie, had a poster at the INSAR Technology Demonstration session on the 11th May. Her work explored how practitioners in special education view technologies and whether they think technology helps or hinders social interaction in autistic pupils. The poster can be viewed at this permalink: INSAR18 poster social tech _ v2 More…
This is the mini-site for Maggi’s PhD project, which investigated the influence of digital technologies on social play and interaction in autistic children. About this projectPractitionersEvaluationComparisonAbout this project This project is looking at the influence of digital technologies on social play in children with autism. There’s an ongoing debate on whether technology has changed the…
