Autism Voices Wins Prestigious Award
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...
read moreHow can Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter enable inclusion of and encourage participation of autistic pupils in a year 7 boy’s mainstream classroom?
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...
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Autism Voices Film Project
Act for autism in collaboration with Warwickshire county council, Andersen shelter productions and 12 autistic students have made their first film...
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The Autism Show
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"...
read moreAutistic children from Warwickshire create and star in their own film
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...
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World Autism Awareness Week
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...
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Enhancing the connection between teachers and autistic pupils
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...
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@actforautism1’s award winning short film called ‘Autism Voices’ is now on YouTube. Please have a watch and share it, as this video explains some of the sensory difficulties your SEN students may deal with. The smallest change can have the biggest impact!
https://t.co/DgYMiDvE2l
It is so wonderful that @SarahHendrickx_ is doing the last session of the day and her whole talk is directed to the #ActuallyAutistic delegates in the room, and this means everyone in the room (autistic or not) is learning from her. 👏👏👏 #autismwomen