The title of the article is 'Read my lips, not my body: a thematic analysis of autistic people's social communication preferences, experiences and expectations.' The authors of this article are HEA Sutherland, Catherine Crompton, Joseph Long and Sue Fletcher-Watson. There is a graphic of three people with speech bubbles underneath the authors' names.

There is a graphic of four people with differently coloured speech bubbles underneath a description of the study background and aim.

Description of the participants and what they were asked in an online focus group. There is a graphic of a woman with long brown hair at a computer and three pink speech bubbles with yellow markings underneath the description.

Today we are showcasing a published article by @heasutherland.com (@cam.ac.uk), @cjcrompton.bsky.social, Joseph Long (Scottish Autism) and @suereviews.bsky.social in the Sage journal Neurodiversity.

This study explored autistic people's experiences of social communication with non-autistic people.

(Part of the problem, I suspect, is that my intuition is that I'd be swinging a bat in both directions...)

I've got this ongoing issue where I intermittently think "I'd love to start a blog about my various autism research thoughts", but a) have no time, and b) can't think of anything I urgently want to write about that doesn't feel like it might potentially involve swinging a bat at a hornet's nest.

NAT Founders Award The National Autistic Taskforce was founded in 2018 by Dr Dinah Murray, a well known autistic community member and an independent researcher and campaigner. Dinah died in 2021 and is sadly missed p…

This is cool! National Autistic Taskforce offering small funding awards to autistic people based in the UK, for work supporting autistic people to live their best lives.

Closing date is 28th Feb.

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📜 New preprint with my INSAR '25 co-panelists - "Making space for Autistic people with ‘complex support needs’: Recommendations for inclusive research practices". About our experiences doing neurodiversity-oriented and participatory research with autistic people with CSN.

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📃New paper alert!📃

Editorial with @suereviews.bsky.social and @sarah595.bsky.social on doing research in high support needs autism services. We cover practical challenges, ethics, consent/assent issues, safeguarding, and the emotional burdens of research.

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Innovating inclusion: Creative methods for non-speaking communities I was absolutely delighted to welcome a diverse and engaged group of researchers and practitioners to our recent event, where we explored innovative and effective ways to research with non-speaking au...

🪧 Thank you to @heasutherland.com, Verity Ward and Jill Bradshaw for sharing your fantastic research!
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#ResearchMethods #Methodology #CreativeMethods (3/3)

This is happening tomorrow! You can get both in-person and online tickets still.

It's just 🚨3 DAYS 🚨 until MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
With workshops from @talkingmats.bsky.social & Digital Stories & talks from @heasutherland.com, Verity Ward, Jill Bradshaw & Freddie Jones.
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Book now 🏃 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...

📢 Speaker announcement - Dr Holly Sutherland
AuDHD researcher and postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge, Holly has worked with a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the #neurodiverse experience.
We're excited to have Holly at MethodsLab on 7 Nov!

MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.

I'm going to be at this fantastic event on doing qualitative research with non-speaking neurodivergent people. I'll be talking about ethnography as an inclusive methodology when working with autistic adults with high support needs. Would love to see you there!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/methodslab...

Editing the research proposal for a grant application with a bad head cold, and I think perhaps I have unlocked a specific circle of hell.

Today's new academic achievement is my first fellowship rejection 🥲

I'm coming to realise that the primary purpose of a doctoral thesis is that it's essentially a nicely-organised citation repository for my specific interests.

Thanks to @cfaa.bsky.social for having me speak at their AI symposium, & @heasutherland.com for joining me in our panel session on the science and considerations around AI use across different human-computer interactions. Glad to have met some lovely experts across a range of sectors using AI! ✈️ 👩‍💻 ⚓

Hello! Im at #AECongress25 - do come say hi if you see me. I also have a talk this afternoon about the double empathy problem in care and support services!

Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people A growing body of research suggests that the behaviours and experiences of autistic and non-autistic people are influenced by whether they are interacting with someone of the same or different diagnos...

Does neurotype affect social connection? Our new @PLOSONE paper finds autistic people report lower rapport in conversations, but it's not that simple. We found that awareness of who you're talking to is key!

Paper link (OA):
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I'm going to be speaking at this, as part of the "Human-AI teaming: Whose voices are missing?" session - talking about how neurodivergent voices and minds need to be included when designing AI to work collaboratively with humans.

Belated because I've been super busy, but I graduated a few weeks ago! I'm *officially* Dr. Sutherland now.

Not sure I can really explain what that means to me - I've wanted a doctorate for as long as I can remember. Huge thanks to the wonderful supervisors who helped get me there. 💜

Update: I have fixed the problem via Writing A Longer And Slightly More Mediocre Version of the code. Many such cases with R, unfortunately.

Would really love it if I could verbally reason with R Studio, actually.

(Brought to you by: an error message telling me I can only use Function A with Function B, which is... the exact function I'm using it with... via identical syntax to that in the documentation...)

Dr. Holly E.A. Sutherland Holly E. A. Sutherland, PhD - AuDHD neurodiversity researcher

Hello! I do cognitive science-ish things, neurodiversity (mostly autism), mixed methods research, and sometimes weird interdisciplinary stuff. I love giving talks. Currently doing a postdoc at @ Cambridge.

You can find my papers, datasets, talks archive etc. on my website: www.heasutherland.com

In honour of the fact I have hair now: new profile photo!

This way I will hopefully stop alarming people by being unexpectedly not-bald when I see them at conferences.

Massive congrats on both the degree and the VERY cool photos!!! 💜

Very excited to be attending the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference today, from the @ndhumanities.bsky.social network. Sad I can't be there in person, but their online provision is wonderful, and lots of very cool speakers in the lineup...

If you're interested in autism, religious experience, and people who are minimally-speaking / have higher support needs, do check out this job at U of Aberdeen:

www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/rese...

You'd get to work on a very interesting project with a really great team.

This is now published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research!

▶️ sjdr.se/articles/10....

Ailbhe McKinney has done a bunch of work on adolescent transitions, I think specifically with girls and nonbinary people - not sure what she's published on it yet though...

Just got an invite to review a paper, from a journal which I had, no more than *two hours before*, submitted a paper review to. Please... a week between reviews, I beg... one week is all I ask for...

I’m so excited to share that our call for papers for a special issue of ‘ #Neurodiversity’ is now live!

We’re looking for papers, podcasts, videos (and more) that align with the critical turn in #ND studies! 🤩

@ainokash.bsky.social @louisecreechan.bsky.social

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