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

New scientific frameworks for thinking about autism, and improved inclusion of autistic voices in the research process, are changing our understanding of what autism is.

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

Autistic people socialise and communicate differently to non-autistic people. However, qualitative exploration of this, particularly …

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

Differences in socialising and communicating between autistic and non-autistic people are well documented, but primarily from the …

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

Recent research has shown that interactions between autistic people do not evidence the same social communication difficulties seen …

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?

Dataset and code associated with the paper ‘Sutherland, H. E. A., Axbey, H., Sharp, M., Ropar, D., Fletcher-Watson, S., Crompton, …