Autistic sensory, stimming, & relaxation techniques: Annette & Monique educate Aucademy 16.10.2021
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 17/10/2021

Recorded and originally aired: 16th Sep 2021; 19:00  London GMT; 12:00 PDT: *Autistic sensory, stimming, & relaxation techniques: Annette & Monique educate Aucademy's Chloe 16.10.2021*

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Guest speaker details: 
Annette Foster (she/they) completed a PhD in performing arts, investigating Autistic women, non-binary, and trans people's experiences via performing arts, creator of Super Autie Grlll and Gang. Annette is also a permanent Educator-Learner on Aucademy. 

Monique Craine (they/them) is from Gibraltar but has lived in a number of countries over the years. Monique is a multiply-neurodivergent coach and consultant who specialises in neurodiversity. Monique delivers workplace training on a number of neurodiversity related topics, from understanding neurodiversity for beginners to how to adjust for neurodivergent people in the workplace. Monique also enjoys helping recently diagnosed adults to learn to better understand themselves and achieve positive outcomes. Monique runs sessions on understanding neurodivergent behaviour, making sensory profiles, understanding stimming and why we do it, and understanding relaxation and what that might look like for Autistic people.

Facebook: Monique Craine @Neurodivergents
Twitter: @MoniqueCraine
https://www.mccas.co.uk My website
https://www.needtosay.weebly.com My blog site

I was published in ‘Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement; stories from the frontline’ (edited by Stephen Kapp, Palgrave Macmillan press, 2020) free to download here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23177

I made a YouTube video on autism which can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/I_iQPy2n21U

**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians** 

Dr Chloe Farahar - Autistic academic, educator, and self-advocate 
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