Centre for Research in Autism and Education

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

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

Know Your Normal | Ambitious about Autism A toolkit to help autistic young people understand what their physical and mental health normal is.

#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.

Brian & Mel in front of the CityLit Slide

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… 🤩

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

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

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

CRAE's 2025 annual lecture - Supporting nonspeaking autistic people's flourishing using collaborative cognitive science, with Prof. Vikram Jaswal Supporting nonspeaking autistic people's flourishing, Vikram Jaswal (3rd April 2025)

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

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.

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 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’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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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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Ameliorating the disadvantage for autistic job seekers

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

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 Tōjisha-Kenkyū (English overdubbed version)

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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)

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.

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.

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 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’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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Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

Coming very soon.
2nd Oct 4 pm BST

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

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

Autistic as F*ck An exploration of the autistic experience of performance.

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.

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

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

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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Autistic Adults’ Priorities for Future Autism Employment Research

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...

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.

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.

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-...

<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...

You can read the full article here: bera-journals.online...
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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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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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Sam presents his poster

CRAE PhD student, Sam Dexter, presented his research about careers guidance for autistic young people at #AutismEurope 🇮🇪
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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-...

‘I can’t say that anything has changed’: parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) discuss the impact of the Children and Families Act in England and Wales Despite hopes of better support systems and outcomes, the consensus was that little had changed. Parents noted limited support as their children navigated the challenges of transitioning to adultho…

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‘I can’t say that anything has changed’: parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) discuss the impact of the Children and Families Act in England and Wales

Do say hello to the CRAE folk at #AutismEurope:
@melromualdez.bsky.social
Sam Dexter
@autisticcharlie.bsky.social