There has been a lot of concern in the autistic community around a new study, Spectrum 10K, which aims to collect DNA samples from 10,000 autistic people. I have been keen to use my position as a scientist (not a geneticist, and not involved in this specific study) to support the autistic community. I’ve been…
The number of older adults is increasing, and as in the general population, autistic adults may need residential care in their old age. Little is known about how best to support older autistic adults in residential care for older people. We worked with autistic older adults, their family members, residential care services providers for…
We are currently in the process of writing up a paper that will describe the discussions from the three multi-expert meetings. This paper will describe the key themes discussed during these meetings and our vision for the future of research and practice in this area. We will update this page with a pre-print when…
In order to learn more about the experiences of older autistic adults who live in residential care, we co-created an interview schedule called the Autism Satisfaction with Care Holistic Interview (ASCHI). We worked with autistic people, their families and allies, researchers, service providers and clinicians to co-create this interview. This involved finding out about what…
In the middle of 2018, a group of academics came together, with the realisation that we were all, separately, contributing to a new way of thinking about autism. In various ways we had – implicitly or explicitly – developed a quantiative and experimental test of the predictions of the Double Empathy Problem. We collected our…
We’re delighted to share details of this new (published February 2019) book, jointly written by me, Sue Fletcher-Watson and Professor Francesca Happé of King’s College London. About the Book: Here’s the official blurb: This new edition of Happé’s best-selling textbook provides a concise overview of contemporary psychological theories about autism. Using a ‘levels of…
We have recently published a new article reporting on eye-tracking as a way to measure differential change in Scientific Reports. The paper is free to download from this link and you can cite the paper as: Fletcher-Watson, S., & Hampton, S. (2018). The potential of eye-tracking as a sensitive measure of behavioural change in response…
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…
The Click-East study resulted in a few published articles – the links below go to open access versions of each paper: This reports on the design process we used to build the app, during Stage One of the project This reports on the main outcomes from the clinical trial in which we evaluated the app…
These reports provide summaries of the Click-East trial from the start, middle and end of the study. They were originally written for families taking part and for the people who helped us recruit to the trial. You can download them here: ClickEast Newsletter October 2012 ClickEast Newsletter April 2013 ClickEast Newsletter Sep 2013