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09:00am	Welcome by the chairs Barrington Campbell, Founder of Kagai Games Carla Manini Rowden, Head of Casework Services, National Autistic Society
9:10 - 9:20am	Welcome address Caroline Stevens, Chief Executive, National Autistic Society
9:20 - 10:05am	Plenary session and Q&A Behind the mask - autism, women and late-diagnosis Holly Smale, author
10.05 - 10.15am	Short break
10:15 - 11:00am	Plenary session and Q&A How to reduce systematic racial barriers: experiences of a Black autistic woman Warda Farah, social entrepreneur, speech and language therapist, author and adjunct lecturer
11:00 - 11:20am	Morning break
11:20am - 12.05pm	Plenary session and Q&A Monotropic attention: what it explains about autism Fergus Murray, Chair of the Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh (AMASE) Dr Wenn Lawson, autistic lecturer, psychologist, researcher, advocate and writer
12:05 - 12:15pm	Short break
	Education Chair:	Mental health Chair:	Understanding and supporting differences Chair:
12:15 - 1pm	Stream A Supportive learning environments for autistic pupils Dr Anna Cook, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Education (IOE), University College London's Faculty of Education and Society	Stream B Suicidal behaviours in autistic children and young people: moving towards greater understanding and support Jo Billington, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Autism, University of Reading	Stream C Supporting individuals with complex communication difficulties Emily Higgins-Walsh, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT)
1 - 2pm	Lunch break
2 - 2:45pm	Stream A Strengths-based approach that values differences in autistic pupils Taneisha Pascoe-Matthews, SENDCo, assistant headteacher, - parent and author	Stream B Anxiety in autistic people who speak few or no words Dr Jane Waite, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Aston University	Stream C Autism and ADHD: living the paradox Purple Ella, autistic content creator
2:45 - 3:05pm	Afternoon break
3:05 - 3:50pm	Stream A Learning about neurodiversity at school —and beyond Dr Alyssa Alcorn, Research and Impact Lead, Learning About Neurodiversity at School (LEANS) Project, The University of Edinburgh	Stream B Experiences as an autistic in-patient in psychiatric care Dr Hannah Belcher, researcher and author, King’s College London	Stream C Reducing health inequalities for autistic people Dr Mary Doherty, Consultant Anaesthetist, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
3:50 - 4pm	Short break
4 - 4:45pm	Stream A Challenges faced by autistic children in school Jodie Smitten, autism consultant and trainer	Stream B Only seeing what you are looking for – the challenge of being open to a full range of possibilities in a diagnostic process Sue Smith, Head of Lorna Wing Centre (Kent) and Principal Speech and Language Therapist, National Autistic Society	Stream C “Autistic language” - a hypothesis Rachel Cullen (they/them), PhD student (intellectual and developmental disabilities), Cullen Consultancy
4:45pm	Closing remarks
5pm	Conference ends

	Additional on-demand sessions
1	Last but not least: later life experiences of autistic people Rose Matthews, autistic researcher and writer
2	The evolution of personalised care and social prescribing Andrew Carpenter, Autism Lead for NHS England, London Region, and NHSE Peer Leader and Public Champion for Personalised Care
3	Choosing interventions that are evidence-based and ethical Dr Kathy Leadbitter, Research Fellow, University of Manchester
4	What might ‘flourishing in autistic adulthood’, look like? Dr Wenn Lawson, autistic lecturer, psychologist, researcher, advocate and writer Professor Liz Pellicano, Professor of Autism Research, University College London
5	Reducing CAMHS inpatient admissions for autistic children and young people – the work of the National and Specialist CAMHS Autism and Intellectual Disabilities Intensive Intervention Team (AID-IIT) Dr Catherine Sholl, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Team Lead for AID-IIT, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
6	Moonshot and the National Autisic Society Strategy – an update Peter Watt, Managing Director of National Programmes Tim Nicholls, Head of Influencing and Research Helen Ellis, Project Officer – Autistic Employee Experience