7 min SENCO Autism 1/7: Eye Contact Target
Channel: The Sensory Projects
Date: 2021-06-18

This film looks at:
* Why eye contact is given as a target to autistic students.
* What the underpinning aim of eye contact is.
* How this aim can be achieve in alternate ways.
* Misunderstandings across a neuro divide.
* Risks associated with understanding autism as a behaviour rather than a brain difference.
* How to audit targets set for autistic students.
* Re-imagining social communication.

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You can find my son's book My Mummy is Autistic at https://bit.ly/MMIA-Grace
And my book The Subtle Spectrum at http://routledge.pub/SubtleSpectrum

Reading/Research relating to this film's content includes (do get in touch for further reading materials):

https://theautisticadvocate.com/2019/03/an-autistic-identity/

Cassidy, S., Bradley, L., Shaw, R. et al. (2018). Risk markers for suicidality in autistic adults. Molecular Autism 9, 42 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-018-0226-4

Cassidy, S.A., Gould, K., Townsend, E. (2019) et al. Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample. J Autism Dev Disord. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04323-3

NASEN (2016) Girls and Autism: Flying Under the Radar. Accessed online on 26/6/20 at https://nasen.org.uk/uploads/assets/c6c70871-4de8-410f-a444ef1efa0261a6/flying-under-the-radar.pdf

Hull, L., Petrides, K.V. & Mandy, W. (2020). The Female Autism Phenotype and Camouflaging: a Narrative Review. Rev J Autism Dev Disord https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-020-00197-9

Hull, L., Lai, M. C., Baron-Cohen, S., Allison, C., Smith, P., Petrides, K. V., Mandy, W. (2019). Gender differences in self-reported camouflaging in autistic and non-autistic adults. Autism, 18, 1362361319864804.

Beck, J. S., Lundwall, R. A., Gabrielsen, T., Cox, J. C., & South, M. (2020). Looking good but feeling bad: “Camouflaging” behaviors and mental health in women with autistic traits. Autism, 24(4), 809–821. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320912147

Allely, C.S. (2019), "Understanding and recognising the female phenotype of autism spectrum disorder and the “camouflage” hypothesis: a systematic PRISMA review", Advances in Autism, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 14-37. https://doi.org/10.1108/AIA-09-2018-0036

Cook, A. Ogden, J. and Winstone, N. (2018) Friendship motivations, challenges and the role of masking for girls with autism in contrasting school settings, European Journal of Special Needs Education, 33:3, 302-315, DOI: 10.1080/08856257.2017.1312797

  Lai, M. C., Lombardo, M. V., Ruigrok, A. N., Chakrabarti, B., Auyeung, B., Szatmari, P., Happé, F., Baron-Cohen, S., & MRC AIMS Consortium (2017). Quantifying and exploring camouflaging in men and women with autism. Autism : the international journal of research and practice, 21(6), 690–702. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316671012

  Rynkiewicz, A., Schuller, B., Marchi, E. et al. (2016). An investigation of the ‘female camouflage effect’ in autism using a computerized ADOS-2 and a test of sex/gender differences. Molecular Autism 7, 10 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-016-0073-0

  Hull, L., Petrides, K. V., Allison, C., Smith, P., Baron-Cohen, S., Lai, M. C., & Mandy, W. (2017). "Putting on My Best Normal": Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 47(8), 2519–2534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-017-3166-5