Scottish Autism has launched a series of resources and animations developed from information collected through an online questionnaire, focus groups, interviews with individual practitioners and autistic women, and other recent research studies. Each animation and associated resource summarises these findings, presenting it in a succinct and useful form for...
SWANs are delighted that our founder Dr Catriona Stewart was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours list for her outstanding contribution to autistic women and girls. Catriona has worked tirelessly since completing her PhD to build the network for...
SWAN is one of 9 charities and organisations awarded funding under the new Scottish Government’s Improving Understanding of Autism campaign. The campaign is aiming to dispel myths about autism and give non-autistic people an improved understanding of autism. The funding is directed at making employment and community participation more...
Lost in Translation: The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence by Trauma Geek. rony@swan
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Lost in Translation: The Social Language Theory of Neurodivergence (Part 1 of 2)
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by Janae ElisabethI've created a survey with the aim of creating a snapshot of our experiences as autistic people of the COVID-19 emergency response legislation and the guidelines and also to capture our concerns and questions around these going forwards. Please do fill this out if you can possibly, even if you have no direct experience with the police at this time as there are other questions I'm sure you could valuably answer. Many thanks in advance - and please share it on too. This is for those of you living in Scotland only, please. Catriona www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SWAN-COVID-19legislationandguidelines/
Autistic experience of COVID-19 legislation and guidelines
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Please take a few minutes to take our survey.The first report of the Independant Advisory Group to the Scottish Police Authority is available here. I understand the brief I drafted for them in the form of an open letter to the police from the autistic community was also sent to the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights at Westminster. Cat@Swan www.spa.police.uk/assets/126884/441011/601841/619292/item5
Summary of Findings from Pilot Survey of Autistic School Staff in the UK. The pilot survey of autistic school staff who work in the UK ran for about 4 weeks late 2019, and was open to anyone with a diagnosis of autism, or those seeking a diagnosis of autism, 18+, who work/worked in an education role in a school in the UK. The report gives key aspects of the findings and a summary of what the next stage of the project will be. Cat@Swan repository.uel.ac.uk/item/87w2v
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The UEL Research Repository preserves and disseminates open access publications, research data, and theses created by members of the University of East London. It exists as an online publication platform that offers free permanent access to anyone. For more information about the repository and how t...Just because it's beautiful, rony@swan
"Maestro by Illogic Studios and Bloom Pictures is a gorgeous short film, starring an ensemble of animated woodland creatures that gather under a full moon one night to sing a Bellini anthem." Classic FM
Woodland creatures sing a Bellini opera in beautiful short film
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This charming short film takes us deep into the forest to enjoy a nocturnal opera, performed by an ensemble of beautifully animated woodland creatures.