Recent & Upcoming Talks

An ethnographic study of care and support services for autistic people with higher support needs.

What does neuro-affirming care and support look like for autistic people with higher support needs?

What does neuro-affirming care and support look like? How do we integrate the principles of neurodiversity with providing support for autistic people?

An overview of how the double empathy problem manifests itself in care and support environments for autistic people with higher support needs.

A panel discussion and Q&A session

Part of a panel about qualitative methods for including nonspeaking and high support needs neurodivergent people in research.

Exploring neurodiversity, the double empathy, and cross-neurotype communication in an autistic high support needs context.

Research findings from an ethnographic study of two day-support services for autistic adults with high support needs, through a neurodiversity paradigm lens.

How well can (non-)autistic observers identify whether people in photos or videos are autistic? Does who the people are talking to matter for accurate identification?

Improving communication between autistic and non-autistic people by understanding the autistic experience.

What autistic people find important; what they want non-autistic people to know; and what they want non-autistic people to do.

Unpacking what neuro-affirming support for autistic adults with intellectual disability looks like, in theory and in practice.

Understanding why misunderstandings between autistic and non-autistic people occur, by taking an autistic perspective on social communication.

Presenting the results of my second PhD focus group on autistic experiences of social interaction and communication.

Talk on my PhD research and progress so far.

An overview of my PhD research, with a focus on autistic-autistic social communication.

What does ‘support’ mean in a neuro-affirming context? How do we provide neuro-affirming support?

A presentation about my work for the Winton Centre on risk matrix comprehension. Delivered with Ruri Protopopescu.

Reporting the results from my first focus group on autistic people’s communication wants, needs, and preferences.

Understanding the autistic style of social communication through the double empathy problem.

Workshop for health professionals on how to to communicate risk to patients. Delivered with Leila Finikarides.