We're very proud that a paper from our SUPer project has ranked in the top most-viewed papers in JARID, published by @wiley.com for the British Institute of Learning Disabilities doi.org/10.1111/jar....

Annual CRAE lecture: Time to deliver. Mon 22 June • 6 PM • Online Professor Laura Crane will be sharing insights as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee on the Autism Act 2009.

Just posted last week's #CRAEwebinar. Spencer Hayes took us through the research around handwriting practice, movement and the need for novel tasks with autistic children.

Everyday executive function issues from the perspectives of autistic adolescents and their parents: theoretical and empirical implications #CRAEresearchSummaries

It’s the Improving Interventions for Children’s and Young People’s Mental Health conference today (hosted by UCL’s Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing) Do say hello to Brian & Mengning if you’re here. They have a poster on co-pro autistic digital supports at uni.

Jess & Brian talk about au-some teacherson the PLASN-r (pan-London Autism Schools Network) mini-podcast

“I Don’t Understand Their Sense of Belonging”: Exploring How Nonbinary Autistic Adults Experience Gender #CRAEresearchSummaries

New paper just published! "What I Would Like to change" About Cancer Care. In this paper Rosie and I share recommendations for improving primary cancer care for disabled people. Article is free to access and will require a log in. www.jcn.co.uk/journals/iss...

New paper: Transition Out of School for Autistic Young People: An Umbrella Review Recommendation: We need to plan with, not for, autistic young people and ensure that research, practice, and policy are aligned around outcomes that actually matter to them. #AutRes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

Annual CRAE lecture: Time to deliver. Mon 22 June • 6 PM • Online Professor Laura Crane will be sharing insights as Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Committee on the Autism Act 2009.

Co-Constructing Creative Methods for Voice with Sarah Parsons [5-MAR-25] #CRAEwebinar #archive

Still not too late to grab a place at this weeks #CRAEwebinar Moving in Unpredictable Environments with Spencer Hayes Thur 7th May, 4pm

Last week there I saw a couple of copies of Robert Chapman’s Empire of Normality were scudding around the CRAE office (and today I see it at half price). www.plutobooks.com/p... #CRAEisReading

Next week’s #CRAEwebinar is with Spencer Hayes who will be sharing some counter-orthodox research; autistic folk might learn some motor skills better in unpredictable environments. Signup:

Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014 #CRAEresearchSummaries

A newish entry to the #CRAEwebinar archives Virtual reality as a tool for supporting autistic people, with Nate Caruana (5-FEB-26)

#AutINSAR #INSAR2026 questions to mull over before the discussion at 12:45 Prague time (please don't answer before then): Q1: What are your top three priorities for autism research? Q2: Which topics do #ActuallyAutistic people discuss that are missing from research conversations? 2/

Since INSAR was not able to provide a room for the 2026 #AutINSAR chat (no foul; they tried), we will be meeting IRL in the Level 1 Club Foyer space tomorrow, Saturday April 25, at 12:45 - 1:45 Prague time. As we will be on BlueSky too It is fine to respond asynchronously!

More posters at #INSAR2026. Jess Spiegler at 28G; Autistic Educators’ Views and Experiences of Inclusion and Exclusion: How Workplace Culture Shapes Belonging

At #INSAR2026 in Prague today (Friday), pop by poster 25C at 6:30pm (quiet 5:30) CRAE's @samdexter.bsky.social#INSAR2026has a poster 'The Views and Experiences of Autistic Young People with School-Based Careers Guidance'. The poster has been selected as one of the Top-Rated Abstracts. Just saying.

It’s encouraging to see a packed room for the Autistic People’s Views panel (@drstevenkapp.bsky.social) at #INSAR2026. I’ll note the majority here are YOUNG autism researchers (not veterans). That’s such an apt commentary on the past/current state of autism research, but also its hopeful future.

Fortunate to have suggested Damian Milton to keynote at #INSAR2026 about the double empathy problem. For 1st time he considered application to animal models (critiquing it) & also included the relevance to autistic people w/ severe intellectual impairment like his son (critiquing “profound autism”).

The double empathy can happen between ANY two people, it doesn’t have to be across dispositional lines. But the everyday breaches and repairs that autistic folk experience can become traumatic.

#INSAR2026 Sergers and team on Co-creating Co-creating. - It’s ok to have a nt in the group. - Respect, good disagreement and nd groups

Does Superior Perceptual Capacity Extend Beyond Autism. Short version - probably not, but AuADHD is fascinating.

If you're at INSAR and wish to say hi, the CRAE SuPer team have a poster up at 12:30 today (Friday) #15C Does Superior Perceptual Capacity Extend Beyond Autism? (Quiet viewing from 11:30, we'll be there 12:30-1) 1/3

The future The mind-space framework Long et al 2022 (including CRAE’s Geoff Bird) Shout out for Geoff!!!! How to quantify predictions and test them.

This morning at #INSAR2026 I (and the @craeioe.bsky.social team are sooooo excited for Damian Milton’s keynote. We just ran into him and are so sure his talk is going to 🤘 rock 🤘.

@uopcidd.bsky.social Director Prof Beatriz López presented meta-analysis w/ ~30k participants: higher variability in autistic ppl for theory of mind & flexibility executive functioning tasks than central coherence or planning EF task. Variability was *not* higher over time #INSAR2026 #neurodiversity

Though important to note that @drmbothapsych.bsky.social says a huge problem is that autistic people are never allowed to just be. And one of the most profound things we can do is provide autistic people space to just be, so they can follow their internal compass, and live well. #INSAR2026

A huge congrats to the amazing James Cusack on the Autism Advocacy Award at #INSAR2026 “Things have meaningfully changed” James Cusack

So many posters from CRAE in Prague today for #INSAR2026… and many more tomorrow. Thank you to all the lovey people who dropped by to say hello.

#INSAR2026 and have gravitated to Session 312 - Neurodiversity in Autism: Insights and Distinctions from ADHD Will it be a two wolves narrative of a self in battle, or the AuADHD self as a single self sculpted by two hands?

Now wrapping up this AADC talk is Mary Doherty positioning autistic diagnoticians. Mary is sharing some insights from the Diagnoticians who are part of the network, it is the first group for autistic diagnoticians which supports the field "Autistic diagnoticians are advancing the field" #INSAR2026

Next up at #INSAR2026 today (Thursday). At 1 - Yimu Zhang's work with Mel 37D Beyond School Readiness to a Hierarchy of Expectations: An IPA (Quiet viewing from 11:30, CRAE will be there 1-1:30)

More posters at #INSAR2026 today (Thursday). Fae will be here with some work from the CAAR team. @bathcaar.bsky.social#INSAR2026 65B - Barriers and Facilitators for Support Provided to Autistic Court Users (Quiet viewing from 11:30, presenters 12:30-1)

Do come and say Hi. CRAE are presenting a few posters at #INSAR2026 today (Thursday). At 12:30 - Arielle Claresta's work with Mel 37G Autistic Adults’ Experiences of Employment in Indonesia (Quiet viewing from 11:30, CRAE will be there 12:30-1)

CRAE and UCL's Global Business School for Health have a poster today at #INSAR2026(Thursday). 12:30 - CRAE and GHBS. Do say Hi. Between Years: Understanding the First-Year University Experience of Autistic Students (Quiet viewing from 11:30, CRAE will be there 12:30-1) @uclgbsh.bsky.social

Mandell: Families with autistic children have an average 28% decrease in household income, mostly due to lack of services and supports that then force families to take on those responsibilities themselves. So what kind of services can help? What kinds of research can affect policy? #INSAR2026

Chairing #INSAR2026 panel on Autistic People's Views on Autism Diagnosis and Intervention w/ talks questioning "optimal outcome", on autistic autism diagnosticians, early intervention strategies benefits and harms, and barriers to autism identification among ethically and racially minoritised adults

Now: Dr. David Mandell, a very thoughtful man who has been attending INSAR since he was a "baby researcher" in 2002, the 2nd conference. He's talking about what we can learn from policy and services research and implementation research, and how these two branches inform each other. #INSAR2026

Keynote at #INSAR2026 with David Mendell. “How to prepare communities of care” Service research: Descriptive and implementative; a ‘mutt’ girl that borrows from economics and systems.

Excited to be presenting some of my dissertation work next week at #INSAR2026! Friday 12:30 in Hall 4A! "Effects of Social Support & Speech on Task Performance in Minimally/Nonspeaking Autistic Teens & Adults." Come get a preview of my HRV findings as well!

@thinkingautism.com We need to look around #INSAR2026 and see who is NOT there. Cost, class, age, sensory overwhelm are all factors.

The International Meeting for Autism Research #INSAR2026 is next week! We'll once again be hosting the #AutINSAR discussion on autistic priorities for autism research, since most research does …not consider those priorities. Join us Sat, April 25. 2025 recap: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/05/what...

With my fellow session presenters at British Sociological Association annual conference at Manchester Uni. Sharing my work on ‘Who Decides What Counts? Autistic Women, Trauma and the Politics of Recognition.’ #britsoc

For all of you traveling to #INSAR2026, we wish you a hassle free journey. If you'd like to say hi - or said hi and forgot our names - we've attached a little who's who. Or do see the whole team's biogs at crae.ioe.ac.uk/whos-...#INSAR2026,1/2

The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: A critical evaluation of the status quo. #CRAEresearchSummaries