Higher support needs

Reducing health inequalities for autistic people by understanding how autistic people’s style of social communication differs from non-autistic people’s.

The neurodiversity movement has reshaped how autism is conceptualized, represented, and increasingly researched. Yet Autistic people …

(Joint first author.) There have been multiple calls to improve autistic people with CSN’s representation in autism research (e.g. Lord …

A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.

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

The way autistic people talk to and interact with other people has often been considered ‘wrong’ or ‘impaired’. Previous research has …

In the latest Middletown Podcast, we chat with researcher Holly Sutherland about her ground-breaking work focusing on autistic …

A panel looking at how the neurodiversity paradigm is beneficial to, and inclusive of, 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?