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This short film casts a satirical side-eye at the common stereotypes of autism. Created using photos sent in by local autistic adults including lots of UKC students in response to the question “what makes you happy?” The images sent in … Continue reading →

Gabor Petri, PhD student at the Tizard Centre, recently presented a paper at the Kent Critical Law Society Conference 2017  “Disability rights in times of crisis – critical perspectives by advocates and self-advocates with autism or learning disabilities”. Disabled people … Continue reading →

As part of World Autism Awareness Day, the Union Street Methodist Church, Maidstone, will be holding an Autism Friendly Church Service at 10:00 am. The Church is looking to host this event in a relaxed and inclusive atmosphere with clarity … Continue reading →

KCC are running a one day workshop exploring the key characteristics of autism and how they can respond to help people with autism to experience a good quality of life.  The workshop is relevant to to anyone who lives with, … Continue reading →

The latest Fragile X newsletter is now available online.  As well as offering family stories and experiences of living with Fragile X, it also looks at the latest research being carried out across the UK and opportunities to participate in … Continue reading →

Working together to deliver positive behaviour support The 2017 International Positive Behaviour Support Research and Practice Conference is being held in Bristol 3/4/5 May 2017.  The underlying theme of this is about delivering the most effective support, building on strengths … Continue reading →

Help us to pilot a new questionnaire designed to measure the quality of life of people with learning disabilities or autism who use adult social care services. This project is a pilot of a new questionnaire that is part of … Continue reading →

The next SPELL Framework Training is being held on the 3/4/5 July 2017 at the University of Kent, Canterbury campus.  Prof Julie Beadle-Brown will be delivering the training aimed at understanding and supporting children and adults on the autism spectrum … Continue reading →

Gabor Petri, PhD student with the Tizard Centre, has just completed an interview for an independent Hungarian blog carried out with Dr Michelle McCarthy, covering her work on domestic violence and women with learning disabilities. The blog has proved a … Continue reading →

One of our post grad students and autistic self advocate, George Watts is trying to contact other autistic adults in Kent to ask if they would be interested in contributing their photos to a film about happiness, to raise awareness of the … Continue reading →