Celebrating Autism Awareness Week

In celebration of World Autism Week 2016, the UCL Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) released a film produced from our ‘Seeing the World Differently’ project.

The film helps viewers understand what autism feels like by talking to pupils on the autism spectrum at the Hendon Autism Resourced Provision (HARP) within Hendon School in north London. Robyn Steward, Autism and Asperger’s trainer, explains that autistic people can see the world differently through their senses, and highlights the importance of learning about individual people. 

This video forms part of CRAE’s ‘Seeing the World Differently’ project, funded by the Medical Research Council. The project aims to uncover why sensory symptoms often occur in autism, and the CRAE research team is giving autistic and non-autistic children at the UCL Institute of Education, at home or at school, a series of fun computer-based tasks designed to find out more about how we all ‘see the world differently’.

" When you’ve met one person on the autism spectrum, you’ve met one person on the autism spectrum – everybody is different.”

Robyn Steward, Autism and Asperger’s trainer

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