Charlene Tait just winding things up now

I’ll join her in thanking all the speakers for their talks, and members of the audience for some great questions (and cheerleading!)

That’s all for now!

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Plenary session underway, with Charlene and Adam being joined on-screen by Kate, Carly, Andy, Will and Jonny – and after a bit by Anna Robinson, who works alongside Jonny

Great to see a majority of #ActuallyAutistic speakers on a panel run by a charity that isn’t an APO! 🥰

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Questions for Adam now

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DCU (Dublin City University) – the world’s first autism-friendly university

Clonakilty – Ireland’s Autism-friendly town

Lots and lots of detail here, which I don’t have the capacity to relay live – sorry!

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AsIAm works with groups across Irish society – but focusing in this talk on universities and towns

The organisation is Autistic led, with a majority of #ActuallyAutistic staff

Changes to benefit Autistic people typically benefit everyone

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Over to the last speaker, Adam Harris, 27-year-old founder and CEO of AsIAm Ireland

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Over to questions for Andy now after a talk that overran slightly

A question about PBS (positive behaviour support), and Andy has revealed himself to be a trained PBS practitioner 🙀

#BanPBS #BanABA

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Talking now about confidence and courage as the opposite of fear

Anger too has survival value

(Having a little trouble taking this all in at the moment – just realised I meant to take #ADHD meds at the end of the lunch break, but forgot 🤦‍♀️)

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Empathy is important in practitioners

And the double empathy problem (Damian Milton 2012) comes into play

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And trauma affects #ActuallyAutistic people to a great extent too

Practitioners need to recognise over-control and the perception of control (controllability beliefs scale, Dagnan et al. 2019)

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5. Drink more than 2 litres of fluid per day?
6. Have any absorbing hobbies or interests?
7. Regularly eat 3 meals (of whatever size) per day?
8. Suffer from gastric complaints, headaches and other minor
ailments on a regular basis?

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A Stress and Well-being Framework

Do you engage at least weekly with any of the following:
1. Light cardiac activity (2-3 hours of walking per week)?
2. Intensive cardiac exercise (1-2 hours a week)?
3. Participate in a physical sport?
4. 10-15 minutes per day of some form of Mindfulness or
meditation?

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A lot of pathologisation, situating problems in people’s heads, is an incorrect appraisal of a transactional/relational problem

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A lot of Autistic people are stressed. Consider the questions in the next two toots

Welcome back to #SAConf22, for session 3 of 3

Two more speakers, followed by a plenary Q&A and then closing remarks

First up, clinical psychologist and director of Studio III Andy McDonnell will be asking ‘Whose behaviour needs to change?’

We’ve just had the second of two breaktime polls at #SAConf22

The first asked whether we’d been to a Scottish Autism conference before

The second asked our preferences regarding the mix of #ActuallyAutistic and allistic speakers

I said I’d prefer all speakers to be Autistic

Jonny is now answering audience questions, and after that we’ll be heading into the lunch break

(Unfortunately my lunch – whatever I can find! – won’t be up to the fabulous fare offered at the 2019 conference)

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Introducing a couple of members of the Dialogica board and their interests: Hanne de Jaegher, Anna Robinson

Also talking about Lori Hogenkamp’s thinking on stress adaptation and ‘peripheral minds’

Sorry – I’ve lost the thread here a little

There’s quite a lot of detail being presented by Jonny, and it’s hard to take in

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The dialogic approach has been used in a number of different contexts

But research currently lags behind practice

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The ADA 😉 approach

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We are relational creatures, says Jonathan

He mentions traditional tribal cultures, where meeting in a circle is common

And koinonia, the Greek word translated as ‘fellowship’ by Christians, but more widely meaning intimate participatory sharing

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