Category Archives: Autism

Research studies from ACER which are helping to shape autism education:

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 […]

Increasing autism awareness amongst diverse ethnic communities in Birmingham

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 […]

CAT and AET Working Together

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 […]

The new AET Good Autism Practice Report out now

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. […]