Autistic sensory trauma: Emma Reardon educates Aucademy's Chloe 06.11.2021
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 2021-11-07

Recorded and originally aired: 06th Nov Oct 2021; 19:00 London; 12:00 PDT: *Autistic sensory trauma: Emma Reardon educates Aucademy's Chloe 06.11.2021*

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Guest speaker details: 
Emma is a 48 year old woman living in West Wales. Her professional career is in the field of social care where she has worked as a support worker, registered manager, and business development manager. She is one of the directors of Autism Wellbeing – a small non-profit organisation that works alongside Autistic people, their families and professionals involved in their lives, to provide training, consultancy, and support; and change the language about autism and the way autism is perceived.

Autism Wellbeing’s research and publication about Sensory Trauma has shown the need for research that validates and draws upon Autistic people’s experiences – Emma is continuing her research in her current PhD work that is exploring perceptions of autism held by clinicians within community mental health teams. 

Emma blogs about autism, and about the natural world and has a Facebook group dedicated to local wildlife. She has written a regular nature column for her local newspaper. Emma also holds a motorcycle licence and has ridden motorbikes since she was a teenager, she is hoping to take her advanced motorcycle test soon.

Emma fits work and studying around home educating her 15 year old son. 

https://www.linkedin.com/company/autism-wellbeing
https://www.instagram.com/autismwellbeing/
https://www.facebook.com/Autism-Wellbeing-UK-1509838305929405
https://www.twitter.com/AutWellbeing

Emma's blogs, work, social media, current projects, and publications in a website: https://findoutaboutemma.wordpress.com/

You can buy the Sensory Trauma paper as a book on Amazon, or have it as a reward for supporting our crowdfunder appeal. We developed training on Sensory Trauma that is has been taken up by NHS clinicians in the Integrated Autism Services in Wales and they have fed back that it has been helpful, particularly in informing their diagnostic assessments of Autistic Adults – so do please promote what we do.
 https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/crowdfunding-to-help-autism-wellbeing-bounce-back


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

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

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