Episode 6 in the June Blogs series aims to cast some light onto one mysterious aspect of academic publishing – the role of the editor. About a year ago I was approached by the editors of Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice to see if I would like to become an action editor for…
The language of neurodiversity has now been with us for some time. Judy Singer coined the word “neurodiversity” more than two decades ago, and Kassiane Asasumasu (formerly Kassiane Sibley) gave us the term “neurodivergent”º. However, the language of neurodiversity is still not being used in a standard way, neither in the community, nor in practice,…
A video summarising our research has been created! You can watch the full version here. We also have a short version of the video which discusses the methods, results and implications of our research. You can watch that here. Transcriptions for both videos are available: For the full video: Word and PDF For the…
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.
Righti-oh, here we go with Part Two of my blog responding to some of the themes from the 2019 meeting of the International Society for Autism Research. Part One was all about Inclusion at the conference – specifically about the inclusion of autistic people – and this one is going to be about Interdisciplinarity. In…
Here we are in early May and it’s time again for my annual blog responding to some of the themes I saw at the International Meeting for Autism Research, which this year took place in Montréal, Canada. Shortly before the meeting, the autism-specific news outlet Spectrum (funded by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative) published…
There is a wide range of digital technologies aiming to support autistic people – but is there evidence that any of them work? This free seminar will address this question for you. The Building Evidence for Technology and Autism (BETA) project assesses the existing evidence for digital technologies that support autism. Guidelines and tools have been…
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 were delighted at the end of 2018 to welcome Dr Damian milton to the UNiversity of Edinburgh to deliver this fantastic lecture on Autism and Mental Health in a Social Context.
Yonks ago now, I gave a talk to PhD students on the basics of participatory research: you can see a video of that talk here. The presentation was in fact a “double act” with my Autistic mentor, Kabie Brook. Now, at long last, I have her video from that same presentation ready to share –…