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Autism Voices Wins Prestigious Award

Oct 14, 2018

Act for Autism’s first film, Autism Voices has been successful in winning a prestigious award at the Golden Door Film Festival in New Jersey. The producer Joy went to collect the award and was overwhelmed by the response. Well done cast and here’s to the next film...

How can Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter enable inclusion of and encourage participation of autistic pupils in a year 7 boy’s mainstream classroom?

Sep 25, 2018

Courtesy of: www.emeraldinsight.com Jane Elizabeth Gurnett, (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) (Act for Autism, Perth, Australia) The purpose of this paper is to facilitate a greater understanding of verbal and non-verbal communication in an openspace learning...

Feedback from the premiere

Jul 26, 2018

What people are saying about our film.

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Jul 22, 2018

Autism Voices Film Project

Jul 10, 2018

Act for autism in collaboration with Warwickshire county council, Andersen shelter productions and 12 autistic students have made their first film...

The Autism Show

Jun 29, 2018

We recently presented 20 workshops to over 1000 parents teachers and other professionals at the Birmingham and Manchester Autism show. [video width="720" height="408"...

Autistic children from Warwickshire create and star in their own film

Jun 28, 2018

Autism. Often associated with difficult behaviour and poor social skills, the condition is commonly misunderstood. Teachers up and down the country can sometimes struggle to understand pupils who have the condition, and those pupils in turn are unlikely to fulfil...

BBC Midlands Today Autism Voices Film Project

Jun 18, 2018

World Autism Awareness Week

Jan 13, 2018

Each year, in the week leading up to World Autism Awareness Day, we encourage the public to take part in World Autism Awareness Week – a full seven days where schools, workplaces and individuals, their families and friends all over the UK are taking part in activities...

Enhancing the connection between teachers and autistic pupils

Jan 13, 2018

Enhancing the connection between teachers and autistic pupils Editorial comments Jane Gurnett (a drama teacher) has developed workshops to help teaching staff to understand, connect with and relate to autistic pupils. She argues that like all children, autistic...