The Scottish Government have announced that schools will close tomorrow, Friday 20th March. We made this handout to help kids who are anxious about this big change. You can download the pdf copy here: My school is closing v3 and a word template for editing here: My school is closing v3
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…
This infographic (I’m showing just a snippet above – click the link for a full downloadable pdf copy) is the output from a student project supervised by DART researcher Catherine Crompton. The student is Caitlin Riach and you can read more about her work here. The infographic summarises they key findings from an online survey…
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…
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.
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…
In May 2018, Bérengère presented a (very colourful, Wes Anderson’s movies-inspired) poster on the ABC findings at the International Society for Autism Research Conference. Have a look at the poster right here! => ABC Poster INSAR 2018 Olly, the DART mascot, presenting the ABC poster at INSAR 2018
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. …
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…