Autism Journey to Success

The conference is being organised by staff and students from Buckinghamshire New University, plus staff from Central and Northwest London NHS Trust, all of whom have an interest in people with autism; this interest is because they are researchers, parents, siblings and professionals. The professionals come from a range of nursing backgrounds, psychology and education too. In addition, we are drawing on a number of other's who are experts in their fields. So we are able to offer an exciting conference and we look forward to seeing you.

I wanted to add my personal thanks for taking part in the Autism Conference Journey to Success 2 Myth Busters. Which was an outstanding success. We went from the last conference just under 200 people to this one which had 300 people booked but counting the numbers ended in excess of 400 people. There were people with autism (sorry if this is the wrong phrase for you), parents and siblings, lecturers, teachers, head teachers, SENCO, nursing students from across the spectrum (mental health, child, adult and learning disability), there were practitioners from health, social care and psychology, there were Clinical Commissioning Group members.

For me one of the highlights was Billie Howard’s session on Myth Busting from the Inside, I was amused, inspired and challenged at the same time, and as one of the many e-Mails I received stated
>  “I was moved by the heartfelt presentations” (not just Billies)
>  “The presentations touched our hearts and panelist spoke from their hearts. Thank a million times everybody.”
> “we have … heard phenomena success stories.”.
> “When the presentations are uploaded I will get my 3 autistic sons to watch.”
> “the different perspectives have been amazing!”
> “Wow... that's quite enlightening in itself.”
>  “That was great I’m going to incorporate more in my life thanks”.
Plus a lot was stated about how well organised it was – so special thanks to Tracy and Alex for taking this over. And to Matthew Rogers for helping with the publicity, we managed to be featured on BBC radio Leicester (Billie and Ruth) and a number of key publications too.
We are already beginning work on the next conference and have sent out the recordings and powerpoints (were available) to the participants along with a certificate of attendance and an evaluation form, which I hope to get some more results from. But meanwhile thank you once again and we deservedly should be proud of this achievement.

If you are interested in helping organise or being involved in the next conference, which will be in April 2022 and a hybrid conference (in person and projected worldwide) please use the contact us button and we will get back to you.

Group 1 (12:20-12:50) C, E, F, D
Group 2 (12:55-13:25) A, J, ,M, K
Group 3 (14:05-14:35) B, H, K
Group 4 (14:40-15:10) D, G, L, I

You will be asked to book your workshop via e-Mail nearer the date.