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Hatice Gundeslioglu and Wenyuan Liu

The Hidden Face of Autism

Wenyuan Liu Professor Mandy opened the seminar with some general thoughts about autism, particularly the history and changes in how autism has been defined over time, much of this was derived from his own research and clinical practice. Professor Mandy emphasised that the evolution of the definition of autism was driven by both scientific discoveries and social political changes. When autism was first described by ...
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“My cheeks get red and my brain gets scared” – learning about anxiety in children with autism

Associate Professor, Dawn Adams, began her CEDAR Seminar Series talk by highlighting her research focus on autism and anxiety and how embracing qualitative approaches in addition to quantitative approaches. The presentation discussed her journey from a background in quantitative analysis to appreciating the value of qualitative methodologies in combining a top down and bottom up approach to exploring overlapping symptomatology of autism and anxiety in ...
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A History of Controversies over the treatment of autism with behavioural therapies

Nikita Hayden Milana Aronov opened her CEDAR Seminar Series talk by highlighting how relatively under-explored autism is in the humanities. Where historians do study autism and disability, it rarely gets on the radar of families, practitioners, educators, or health and psychology researchers. This seems a pity. We have a lot to learn from history, especially for those of us engaged with marginalised groups, including autistic ...
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Expert Sleep Advice for Autism and ADHD

We recently heard from a family who got in touch to tell us how our Sleep Advice Service was able to give them expert advice on dealing with their daughter's sleep problems which were affecting the whole family. Their eight year old daughter is a high energy girl who loves to perform and sing and dance to entertain her family and loves her tabby cat ...
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Dr Jo Moss

Dr Jo Moss is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey. Jo leads the Cerebra Network research in autism, focusing on understanding the prevalence, profile and social-cognitive mechanisms underpinning the development of autism and related characteristics in people with genetic syndromes. This research will help to improve the accuracy of autism assessments in people with genetic syndromes and will lead to better support for ...
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Positive Family Connections

What is Positive Family Connections? Positive Family Connections is a new online 6 week programme for families who have a child with additional developmental needs (learning disability, autism, or both) aged between 8-13. The programme aims to enhance positive connections between family members. Our relationships with those closest to us are key for the wellbeing of the whole family and that is no different when ...
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Sleep Advice Service

Sleep tips Our Sleep Tips booklet introduces and explains different techniques for you to try that may improve your child's sleep. It covers ten main topics including bedtime routines, daytime napping, comfort objects and moving bedtime backwards or forwards. It gives lots of illustrated hints and tips for putting the techniques into practice. Download Sleep advice service Our dedicated sleep service is here to help. ...
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We want to complain about a delay in receiving an autism assessment (Wales)

You can use this letter to make a complaint to a health body if your child has been referred to the specialist autism team and is still waiting for an initial assessment 26 weeks after the referral.
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We want to complain about a delay in receiving an initial autism assessment (England)

You can use this letter to make a complaint about a health body if your child has been referred to the specialist autism team and is still waiting for an initial assessment 3 months after the referral.
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Atypical autism in children and young people with neurodevelopmental disorders

This is one of a series of end of grant reports from Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CCND) explaining the focus of their work and their achievements for the project period 2014 – 2019. The programme of work in this area has been to better describe and understand autism in children with the most complex needs. The aim has been to level the playing field ...
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