Category Archives: Autism
Mar
By Wendy Peel The Communication and Autism Team have contributed to recent and upcoming research projects with the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER) at the University of Birmingham. An ongoing campaign to highlight the research studies, called Unfiltered Lives, was released on 4th March 2021. This campaign includes three poignant short films which […]
There are around 700,00 people in the UK with an Autism diagnosis, that is more than 1 in 100. For those of us in educational settings it is important for us to have an awareness of Autism and knowledge of how this affects individuals we might have in our settings and classrooms. An increasing amount […]
Jun
The Coronavirus has forced us all to work in different ways. The Communication and Autism Team (CAT) in Birmingham have risen to the challenge to support the families of children and young people on our caseload. In normal circumstances, we mainly work with pupils within their school environment. However, many of our caseload pupils are […]
Jun
Birmingham has a wide and varied population, and is home to a diverse mixture of communities from around the world. Autism is a condition found across all cultures, therefore it is essential that awareness is raised amongst all communities, in order to promote a factual understanding of, and empathy for, autistic people. For the last […]
Jan
In 2011, the Communication & Autism Team (CAT) began working in with the Autism Education Trust (AET). As a regional training hub for the AET’s programmes of training, CAT specialists worked with schools to implement the National Autism Standards and Competencies within all the State Funded schools in Birmingham. AET training programmes cover three age […]
Nov
The new AET Good Autism Practice Report 2019 consists of a set of guidelines written by members of the Autism Centre of Education and Research (ACER) at Birmingham University. The guidelines have been generated from a review of the research evidence, current policy documents, expert opinion, statutory guidance and from the views of autistic people. […]