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As the Exploring Diagnosis funding runs out this July, we have been reflecting on our project achievements. We have produced: 2 x PhD thesis Drawing a line in the sand: Autism diagnosis as social process by Jennie Hayes  Jennie’s PhD explored how clinicians make diagnostic decisions about autism in secondary care. The process of diagnosis […]

Apologies it has been so long since blogging, the ExDx team has now largely disbanded and Ginny has been working on her latest book The Rise of Autism: Risk and Resistance in the Age of Diagnosis to be published later this month. This two-part blog series will share with you some of the graphics that […]

Different Voices in Bristol is an ongoing film talent development project for artists and filmmakers who self describe as being Neurodiverse. They have run 4 Different Voices projects so far. Different voices 1: https://vimeo.com/showcase/4497762 Different voices 2: https://vimeo.com/showcase/4836027 Different voices 3: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5815658 (PASSWORD: DV3) Different voices: Life Magnified: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5836829 (PASSWORD: DV3) Catch our next #ExDxFilms event at the RAMM, Exeter on the 7th November. […]

Recently ExDx Research Fellow Dr Steven Kapp went to meet one of the project’s featured artists, JA Tan, in his native habitat. His studio is in Vancouver, Canada on Granville Island, is a creative paradise where artists study, work, and show or sell their products in crafts shops, boutiques, and galleries. Indeed, JA studied down […]

Thanks to the organisational skills of both Debra Muzikar and Dr Lamis Jabri from the Art of Autism our Films made their first International appearance at the Mozart & the Mind Symposium, San Diego on Sunday June 2nd. Screened to an audience of both neurotypical and neurodiverse adults and children the Films were well received […]

After first visiting our three Stateside artists in April – James Frye, JA Tan and Angela Weddle – Dom and Jeremy have been back for a second visit to again work with them and to see the artwork that they have been preparing for our films on Diagnosis, Neurodiversity and Art.  The trip was a […]

After we received the online feedback from our previous diagnosis leaflet which suggested that we make a version that would be accessible to a wider range of people on the autism spectrum, we began to create an ‘Easy-Read’ version. We achieved this by initially using an online readability checker to scan the text and flag up […]

Today is Tuesday. We met once more outside the Tan’s place at 8:50 and walked to the studio. JA has a Wacom tablet which his dad bought for him. He hasn’t used it before, but we set it up on his laptop along with the open source animation software ‘pencil 2d’. He did just fine, […]

On Monday we met at 8:50 outside the Tan’s apartment and I walked with JA to his studio. His mentor Jeanne (who is also a tenant of the studios) met us there. I was going to start with a simple flick book made with reference cards and a foldover clip but on the advice of […]

I arrived in Vancouver late on a Friday night in the pouring rain. JA’s parents had arranged for us all to meet on Saturday afternoon, just so JA would know who i am and we’d not be going in cold on Monday morning. Unfortunately JA had plans already. His parents drove me around the city […]