A short message to wish you all a fantastic holiday season. Whatever you are up to, we hope you are feeling well and happy, and looking forward to what 2018 holds. Thank you, as ever, for all you’ve done to support the growing DART team in the last year. It is MUCH appreciated.
The Family in Residence project is definitely something DART folk are incredibly proud to have been a part of! It was nominated for a Times Higher Education Award in 2017. You can read more about the project at this page and here’s Craig’s original post from the very start of the project. One of the…
This is the latest in a semi-regular (trying to be regular) blog series, with the inestimable Duncan Astle. The practical skills of being a good scientist are rarely taught but are vital. This is the subject for our series of blogs, (tagged on the DART pages with Insight Into Research) and this time we are…
Back in 2014 DART developed a summary of some recommended apps for autistic users. This was updated in April 2015 – and yes, I know it really needs doing again! The wheel is divided into relevant topic areas. Icons in the inner circle are suitable for younger players and perhaps those with a learning disability. …
One of the major lessons from the Click-East project was about how to create new technologies for autistic users. Sue talks a bit about what we learned, in the video below, taken from an interview at the Digital Bubbles seminar series. This is just a wee snippet though – if you want to download the…
A quick sorry to everyone who is subscribed to the DART blog! As we manage our transition to our new, updated website, we are putting a lot of info onto the Library pages. These are set up like a blog and so every new item posted will be sent to your inbox. Please bear with…
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
DART researchers recently collaborated on a project investigating the accuracy of portrayals of autism on TV and film. The final article in Psychiatry Research is available here and we also wrote a letter to the editor on the topic, now published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders You can also see the perspective of…
We really liked this balanced, evidence-based blog post which provides an accessible overview of the relations between so-called ‘screen time’ and mental health in young people. …and not just because it quotes our 2016 blog on the topic.