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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 8h

#WorldMentalHeathDay
The ‘know your normal’ tool allows you to describe what your normal looks like: sleep, time spent on hobbies and how this makes you feel, so that if this changes, it’s easier to explain to others that something feels different.

Know Your Normal | Ambitious about Autism

A toolkit to help autistic young people understand what their physical and mental health normal is.

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 1d

Today, CRAE’s Mel & Brian were delighted to join the City Lit #MentalWealth Festival with the great MH TedXer Shaun Flores and NHS ND Network founder Hannah Jones. We bounced around neurodiversity paradigm & movement, mentoring & employability. Full house. Great crowd… 🤩

Brian & Mel in front of the CityLit Slide

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 1d

#CRAEresearchSummaries
Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures: commentary on Wendt et al. (2024)

Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures: commentary on Wendt et al. (2024)

This paper sees potential problems with traditional ToM tests by identifying the types of skills that are necessary for ToM judgements. Often, as psychologists, we are attempting to design experime…

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 3d

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.

youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw

Webinar image for Connor Keating's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia. Photo of Connor. UCL header. Dated 2nd Oct 2025

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted that @connortkeating.bsky.social's Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia #CRAEwebinar is now available to watch on our YouTube Channel.

youtu.be/OqbcUW6qbLw

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 4d

October is AAC awareness month: AAC being Augmentative and Alternative Communication. If you haven't yet caught last year's CRAE lecture from Vikram Jaswal, we can't recommend it enough.

#AACaware25

Supporting nonspeaking autistic people's flourishing, Vikram Jaswal (3rd April 2025)

CRAE's 2025 annual lecture - Supporting nonspeaking autistic people's flourishing using collaborative cognitive science, with Prof. Vikram Jaswal

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 6d

These rapid reports are a concise, up‑to‑date collection of what research says about how to spot needs early, provide good classroom support and work together with teachers, health professionals and families.

Full reports here:
www.gov.uk/governmen...
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Identifying and supporting the needs of children with SEND in mainstream settings

Findings from a series of rapid evidence assessments on what works to identify and support the needs of children and young people with SEND in mainstream and early years settings.

www.gov.uk

Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 6d

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE

Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid...
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Identifying and supporting the needs of autistic children and young people

CRAE’s Mel Romualdez was part of a team of UCL academics who wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’. They have put together…

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 8d

#CRAEresearchSummaries
Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers

Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers

Traditional interviews tend to use open ended questions, such as ‘what qualities would you bring to the job’ or ‘where do you see yourself in 5 years’, which require interpreting social cues and im…

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 9d

Many autistic folks' experience intersects with ADHD, and as
October is #ADHDawarenessmonth*, you might want to have a look at some of the work done on focus by CRAE's Perceptual Capacity team

* awareness is not as great as acceptance or appreciation

‘A storm of post-it notes’: Experiences of perceptual capacity in autism and ADHD - Brian Irvine, Freya Elise, Jana Brinkert, Daniel Poole, Emily K. Farran, Elizabeth Milne, Gaia Scerif, Laura Crane, Anna Remington, 2024

Lab-based tasks suggest autistic people have increased perceptual capacity (i.e. process more information at any one time) compared to non-autistic people. Here, we explored whether this increase i...

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 10d

#CRAEwebinar #archive
Earlier this year, we were introduced to Tōjisha-kenkyū, which roughly translates as ‘self-directed research’, by Prof. Shinichiro Kumagaya and Dr Satsuki Ayaya from the University of Tokyo.

www.youtube.com/watc...

(original Japanese version also available on our channel)

Tōjisha-Kenkyū (English overdubbed version)

Prof. Shinichiro Kumagaya and Dr Satsuki Ayaya from the University of Tokyo introduce us to tōjisha-kenkyū. In tōjisha-kenkyū, which roughly translates as ‘self-directed research’, people with hermeneutically marginalized experiences - including disabilities, mental health conditions or neurodiverg

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ian lasch @ianlasch.bsky.social · 15d

when autistic people talk about research that will actually help to improve autistic people's quality of life, this is the kind of thing we mean. this is a neat study.

Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 15d

#CRAEresearchSummaries
Disclosing an autism diagnosis improves ratings of candidate performance in employment interviews

Disclosing an autism diagnosis improves ratings of candidate performance in employment interviews

Deciding when or whether to disclose an Autism diagnosis in the workplace is often a challenging decision. This study suggests that disclosing during the interview process may enhance employment pr…

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 11d

These rapid reports are a concise, up‑to‑date collection of what research says about how to spot needs early, provide good classroom support and work together with teachers, health professionals and families.

Full reports here:
www.gov.uk/governmen...
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Identifying and supporting the needs of children with SEND in mainstream settings

Findings from a series of rapid evidence assessments on what works to identify and support the needs of children and young people with SEND in mainstream and early years settings.

www.gov.uk

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 11d

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE

Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid...
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Identifying and supporting the needs of autistic children and young people

CRAE’s Mel Romualdez was part of a team of UCL academics who wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’. They have put together…

crae.ioe.ac.uk

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 11d

Coming very soon.
2nd Oct 4 pm BST

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia with @connortkeating.bsky.social

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia

Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 15d

#CRAEresearchSummaries
Disclosing an autism diagnosis improves ratings of candidate performance in employment interviews

Disclosing an autism diagnosis improves ratings of candidate performance in employment interviews

Deciding when or whether to disclose an Autism diagnosis in the workplace is often a challenging decision. This study suggests that disclosing during the interview process may enhance employment pr…

crae.ioe.ac.uk

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 16d

Should you be in London tomorrow, we have a couple of places left with Stephen Bailey and the Autistic as F*ck cast. They will share working ideas and excerpts and facilitate discussion on autistic identity.

Autistic as F*ck

An exploration of the autistic experience of performance.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 18d

If you haven't already done so, do sign up for next week's #CRAEwebinar

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia with @connortkeating.bsky.social

Thur Oct 2nd 4pm bst

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia

Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 22d

#CRAEresearchSummaries
Autistic Adults’ Priorities for Future Autism Employment Research

Autistic Adults’ Priorities for Future Autism Employment Research

In a study of 197 autistic adults, participants stressed the need for research on how to advance in their careers and transition out of work successfully. Despite 22% of autistic adults in the UK b…

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 23d

CRAE’s Sam Dexter has a new blog post over on BERA, the British Educational Research Association

A worthwhile read for those involved with careers, employment or education.

Supporting autistic young people in their transition from school: The role of careers guidance

For many young people, the final years of secondary education are a mix of excitement and uncertainty. The question of ‘what's next?’ looms large, and the choices – whether to pursue higher...

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Brian Irvine @brianirvine.bsky.social · 26d

Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s #NDinHE3 conference - Neurodiversity in Higher Education

Do join Lucy & I for the recording of Neuromentoring live at 2:30.

And if you’re around at 4, I’ll be closing us up with a talk on Hopeful Optimism in Higher Ed.

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 26d

CRAE’s delegates will be with you at Autism Europe.

If you’re attending, do come and say hello – we’d love to hear about your work.

crae.ioe.ac.uk/whos-...

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 27d

You can read the full article here: bera-journals.online...
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<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Careers guidance has long been positioned as a tool to improve young people's transition from education to employment. In addition, schools and colleges in England have a statutory requirement to pro...

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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 27d

They found:
- Staff considered careers guidance activities, such as work experience, to be a really valuable tool for helping build young people’s confidence.
- Work experience can be difficult to organise, as employers often hold unhelpful misconceptions about autism.
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Centre for Research in Autism and Education @craeioe.bsky.social · 27d

In this co-produced study, Sam and team explored the views and experience that staff have with providing careers guidance to their autistic young people.
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