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Centre for Research in Autism and Education
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Research to enhance the lives of autistic people; based in the UCL Institute of Education.
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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
October 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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
October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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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
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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.

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September 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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CRAE PhD student, Sam Dexter, presented his research about careers guidance for autistic young people at #AutismEurope 🇮🇪
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Sam presents his poster
September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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-...
September 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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This evening, we joined the STAR showcase.. that’s Special Topics in Autism Research. The Masters students each created a showcase of work - on relaxed performances to the ways social media creates autism myths… and everything else in between. Thank you ✨
STAR showcase STAR showcase
July 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Are you autistic? Have you just finished your GCSEs?
And do you have views on exams and school support?

You might be interested in taking part in this master's research project led by former CRAE placement student Aaron:
🔗 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/...
Recruitment flyer Text: Autistic GCSE Experiences: What are exams really like for autistic young people? Some autistic students enjoy their GCSE exams, but some autistic students find sitting GCSE exams challenging. However, not enough people have asked autistic students about their GCSE experiences! We do not know enough about what helps and what doesn't. We want to know more about how autistic young people feel about GCSE exams. We want to know what YOU think! We want to understand how well schools are supporting their autistic students during their GCSE exams! We want to find out if there are ways exam papers and exam support can be improved! We need students that are: autistic in Year 11 aged 16 If you want to tell us how YOU feel, scan our QR code to read more about our study and to complete the survey.
June 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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This #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, may we steer you towards the #KnowYourNormal toolkit. 8 years back, CRAE helped write a report about autism and MH.

The toolkit helps us work out a baseline when well - which helps communication when not.

bit.ly/know_your_normal
#knowyournormal
May 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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New #CRAEsummary!
Are autistic people more or less likely to form false memories?

Murphy et al. (with CRAE's Geoff Bird) show that memory might work differently: not more or less accurately, but more deliberately.

crae.ioe.ac.uk/false...
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Big hello to the properly lovely Mary Doherty
@autisticdoctor.bsky.social

Always a joy to meet people in person.
Brian & Mary
May 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Morning all at #INSAR2023
Brian & Leanne Naudusevics say hi!
Brian & Leanne
May 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Proper superstars at #INSAR2025
✨ Kirsten & Vikram ✨
Brian, Kirsten Gillespie-Smith & Vikram Jaswal
May 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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One more CRAE poster going up at #INSAR2025 in hall 4A out in Seattle for the 12:30 session

Jill Doyle & @melromualdez.bsky.social's poster on 'Mitigating the impact of Dysregulation for Autistic Pupils'

(Among other things... frequent purposeful movement breaks)
poster flyer
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Amazing #INSAR2025 people @mishalex.bsky.social Zahra Josh Japonz Dacumos @carleighpt.bsky.social @ljthomas1991.bsky.social
Peeps
May 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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@ljthomas1991.bsky.social @brianirvine.bsky.social @cmanning.bsky.social
Lou, Brian & Cathy
May 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Three CRAE posters going up at #INSAR2025 in hall 4A for the 5:50 slot. Brian, Charlie, Zahra & Josh will be around to say hi.

Neurophysiological markers of increased perceptual capacity
Perspectives on Relationships and Sex Ed (other Josh & Mel)
Perceptual experiences (ID)
poster flyer - Neurophysiological markers of increased perceptual capacity - @bigbadbee @annaremington @janabrinkert @autisticcharlie @freyaelise_ poster flyer- Perspectives on Relations and Sex Ed (by Josh Eaton & Mel Romualdez) - @MelRomualdez poster flyer - Perceptual experiences of Autistic Adults with an Intellectual Disability - @bigbadbee @annaremington @janabrinkert @autisticcharlie @freyaelise_
May 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Bumped into the lovely @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, @clareharrop-phd.bsky.social & Sonny at #INSAR2025
Brian Sonny Monique & Clare
May 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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New CRAE study, looking at experiences of UK-based autistic dental professionals 🦷
Online interview, approx. 30-45 minutes
We would love to hear from autistic dental practitioners with any level of experience
For more details, please email ashweja.barai.24@ucl.ac.uk
Thank you!
Flyer from UCL CRAE seeking UK-based autistic dental professionals for a 45-minute online interview about their experiences. Cartoon-style image shows three people working on a giant tooth. Contact: ashweja.barai.24@ucl.ac.uk.
April 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New #CRAEresearchSummary
from the new paper by Jennifer Price and Mel Romualdez

‘It just feels unnatural being here’:
Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment

✔️individualised
✔️affirming

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graphic with a light purple background featuring three dark purple circular icons paired with quotes from autistic students about their experiences in school. Top section: A person icon walking through a door is shown. Beside it, a quote from Sophie reads: "It just feels unnatural being here (laughs). As soon as I get here, I want to leave... everything in school is kind of a given, and it feels... kind of humiliating when it’s not." Middle section: An icon of a block of classroom chairs. Next to it, Emma’s quote reads: "One big thing is if they gave us... the option of where to sit... the difference between me not being able to go to a lesson ever." Bottom section: A symbol of a head with arrows pointing down toward it. Beside it, Johnny’s quote reads: "It’d make me not want to work, and it makes me not want to think. And it... hurts my brain." At the bottom right corner, the text says: "Price & Romualdez (2025)".
April 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A new paper summary:
Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures. Conway, Long, Sevi, Catmur, & Bird (2025)

Really-short-summary... ToM needs rethinking

crae.ioe.ac.uk/theor...
A meme in the style of the Drakeposting, but in Lego. Top panel: The Lego character looks displeased, turning away from the following list: "tasks with actors" "photos of eyes" "made up stories" Bottom panel: The Lego character looks enthusiastic and is gesturing with approval toward this list: "the real situation others are in" "an understanding of how people vary" To the right of the panels is the caption: Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures: commentary on Wendt et al. (2024)
April 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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New #CRAEresearchSummary
Dexter et al (2025)

-Careers lessons in the classroom
-Work experience
-One-to-one careers advice

But, staff said that the biggest barrier in giving careers support was organising work experience for autistic students.

crae.ioe.ac.uk/speci...

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paper title: School stuff, perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to the autistic young people quote: the difference in her has been incredible because she suddenly got a confidence. She knows she can do things; she knows she can achieve outside of school, and that's really magical to see. quote: and employee, who doesn't know what that autism means, or what that looks like, might just say, oh, sorry, I can't do that, because they don't know, until they meet each young person We recommend that more research is needed into how to provide affective and inclusive, work experience to autistic young people in special schools
April 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A new paper summary:
Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures. Conway, Long, Sevi, Catmur, & Bird (2025)

Really-short-summary... ToM needs rethinking

crae.ioe.ac.uk/theor...
A meme in the style of the Drakeposting, but in Lego. Top panel: The Lego character looks displeased, turning away from the following list: "tasks with actors" "photos of eyes" "made up stories" Bottom panel: The Lego character looks enthusiastic and is gesturing with approval toward this list: "the real situation others are in" "an understanding of how people vary" To the right of the panels is the caption: Theoretical limitations on mindreading measures: commentary on Wendt et al. (2024)
April 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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New #CRAEresearchSummary
Dexter et al (2025)

-Careers lessons in the classroom
-Work experience
-One-to-one careers advice

But, staff said that the biggest barrier in giving careers support was organising work experience for autistic students.

crae.ioe.ac.uk/speci...

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paper title: School stuff, perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to the autistic young people quote: the difference in her has been incredible because she suddenly got a confidence. She knows she can do things; she knows she can achieve outside of school, and that's really magical to see. quote: and employee, who doesn't know what that autism means, or what that looks like, might just say, oh, sorry, I can't do that, because they don't know, until they meet each young person We recommend that more research is needed into how to provide affective and inclusive, work experience to autistic young people in special schools
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#CRAEresearchSummaries
New paper:
Who Tweets for the autistic community? An NLP-driven investigation crae.ioe.ac.uk/who-t...
April 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM