Events
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2023 CRAE Annual Lecture
TITLE: Making Schools Safer and More Inclusive for Autistic Students Schools are inherently hostile places for many autistic students, and it takes effort and knowledge to make them safer and more inclusive. But it doesn’t have to be difficult – in fact, many necessary changes are quick-fixes, cheap and easy to implement, so long as…
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CRAE Webinar Series: Aimee Grant
Click the image above to book your place! TITLE: ‘Incredibly Painful, Both Emotionally and Physically’: Autistic Experiences of Pregnancy Loss and Associated Healthcare Around one in five pregnancies end in loss, and it is well established that this experience is traumatic in a general population. To date, little is known about Autistic experiences of pregnancy…
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CRAE Webinar Series: Heba Al-Jayoosi
Click the image above to book your place! TITLE: “Evaluating the use of Flexible Seating in a Mainstream Primary School for Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Pupils” Most neurodivergent pupils are educated at mainstream. Whilst adaptations to seating are sometimes recommended to accommodate the needs of certain children (for example by occupational therapists), the use of a range…
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2022 CRAE Annual Lecture
Click the image above to book your place! TITLE: Neurodiversity-affirmative education for autistic learners Neurodiversity is a simple, incontrovertible scientific fact, but the implications of this concept are both profound and radical. In this lecture, Professor Sue Fletcher-Watson will start by exploring how recent findings are undermining historic models of understanding autism, and highlighting the…
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CRAE Webinar Series: Alyssa M. Alcorn
Click the image above to view this webinar’s recording on YouTube! TITLE: “What does it mean to teach about neurodiversity at school, and how can we do that? An overview of the LEANS project and resource pack.” The Learning About Neurodiversity at School (LEANS) project is developing the first resource pack for UK primary schools…
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Sebastian Gaigg
In this webinar, Dr Sebatian Gaigg (City, University of London) examines the role of learning and memory processes in the language impairtments in Autism, which is to take place on 3rd June 2021.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Jo Saul
UCL PhD student Jo Saul presents a webinar on expressive language development in minimally verbal autistic children. This is to take place on 6th May 2021.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Liz Pellicano
In this webinar, which takes place on 8th April 2021, Dr Liz Pellicano discusses the everyday experiences of autistic people and families during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Chris Papadopoulos
In this webinar, part of the ongoing #CRAEwebinar series, Dr Chris Papadopoulos (Principal Lecturer in Public Health, University of Bedfordshire), presented his research on autism and stigma. The webinar took place online on 11.00-12.00, 4th March 2021. It was organised by CRAE, the Centre for Research in Autism and Education.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Prithvi Perepa
TITLE: “Camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions.” In this webinar, Dr Prithvi Perepa (Lecturer in Autism, University of Birmingham) highlights different norms across cultures and how this might impact on diagnoses of autism. For example, factors such as direct eye contact, use of gestures, and so on, may be considered inappropriate…
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Julia Cook
In this webinar, Julia Cook presents her research on the different ways in which autistic people adapt to and cope within the predominately neurotypical social world. It took place on 7th January, 2021.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Rosa Hoekstra & Beth Tekola
In this webinar, Rosa Hoekstra and Beth Tekola Gebru discuss their work on autism and intellectual disability in Ethiopia, a nation with a population of over 100 million, half of whom are children.
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[Past Event] CRAE Webinar Series: Jo van Herwegen
Jo van Herwegen talks about her research on developmental disabilities and school transitions in this short webinar, which took place on 5th November 2020.
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[Past Event] Evening of CRAEtivity
CRAE is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a charity evening celebrating autistic people in the arts.
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[Past Event] 2020 CRAE Annual Lecture
Thursday, 03 December 2020 at 18:00 – 19:00Click here to sign up Luke Beardon’s talk for the CRAE Annual Lecture provides a celebratory vision for what a future autistic utopia might look like! About this Event The Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is delighted to announce that the 2020 CRAE Annual Lecture…
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[Past Event] CRAE 10-Year Anniversary
It gives us great joy to invite you to the Centre for Research in Autism and Education – CRAE’s 10 Year Anniversary. Please join us for the celebration on Thursday, 7th November 2019 at 18:30 at the UCL Institute of Education (Jeffrey Hall), 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL.
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[Past Event] It’s All Academic!
Saturday, 05 October 2019 at 10:00 – 16:00 The CRAE team is hosting a stall – “Can it read my mind?” – at UCL’s It’s All Academic Festival. Visit us at the North Lodge, if you would like us to measure your brain’s own electrical activity with Muse™ headbands. The headbands are able to measure the electrical activity of…
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[Past Event] 2019 CRAE Annual Lecture
The Centre for Research in Autism and Education (CRAE) is delighted to announce that the 2019 CRAE Annual Lecture will be given by Peter Vermeulen, who will speak on ‘autism and happiness: from neurodiversity to neuroharmony’.