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SUMMARY:**CANCELLED*** Everyday Autism - Liz Pellicano\, Macquarie Univers
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CONTACT:Elizabeth Weir
DESCRIPTION:Autism is one of the most studied and debated psychological co
 nditions in the world. But what if there is something fundamentally wrong 
 with the way in which the world’s leading neuroscientists and experiment
 al psychologists have sought to understood autism? In the last two decades
 \, international investment in autism science has grown extensively and th
 e number of papers published on autism increased 10-fold\, far surpassing 
 publications on related topics. Yet little of this research has been succe
 ssfully translated into meaningful supports and services that can help aut
 istic people overcome the obstacles they frequently face in life. And even
  more worryingly\, little of it appears to map on to the everyday experien
 ce of autism as understood by autistic people themselves. In this talk\, I
  consider two reasons why this might be the case – first\, autism scienc
 e’s failure to work collaboratively with the broader autism community an
 d\, second\, its apparent unwillingness to test experimental findings with
 in the context of the everyday. In this way\, I challenge the conventional
  wisdom of autism science and encourages us to think again about the way i
 n which we approach the relationship between laboratory and life. \nLiz Pe
 llicano is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor at M
 acquarie University\, having previously been Professor of Autism Education
  and Director of the Centre for Research in Autism and Education at Univer
 sity College London. She trained as a developmental cognitive psychologist
  at the University of Western Australia\, where she also completed a PhD o
 n the cognitive profile of autistic children in 2005\, before becoming a J
 unior Research Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Oxford\, and Lect
 urer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol. Best known f
 or her theoretical accounts of autistic cognition and perception\, her cur
 rent research seeks to identify ways to bridge the gap between lab and lif
 e and open up scientific investigation to greater involvement of autistic 
 people themselves\, with the aim of generating discoveries that bring real
  benefits to autistic people and their families.\n
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