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Conference Page SAAS Autism Conference May 2009For all the people who were in attendance at the SAAS Autism Awareness Day May 2009 we have included a selection of the presentations as power point slideshows. Simply click on the appropriate links below to download / open the file. Luke Beardon : Why people with autism behave in the way they do: Luke Beardon has been working as a practitioner in the field of autism for around fifteen years. Despite having the title of 'senior lecturer in autism' and working for the Autism Centre at Sheffield Hallam University he insists that he not an academic, but simply someone who has always enjoyed working with people with autism. He works closely with people with autism around the country as well as providing input on academic courses from undergraduate through to Masters and Doctoral study. His special interests are people with autism and his family - pretty much to exclusion of everything else. Bob Rhodes : The world is my lobster Bob Rhodes is Co-Founder and Director of Livesthrough Friends CIC – an organisation that assists people to manage and direct their own support arrangements and which asserts that there’s more to life than services. Before this Bob founded TACT UK in 1991 and led it until his 'retirement' in 2006. He was Social Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003. Digby Tantum : Can the world afford ASD Digby Tantum is a psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, and psychiatrist. He has worked in the NHS for over thirty years, and as a University Professor for nearly twenty. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and the Higher Education Academy, and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. SAAS Autism Conference 2009For all the people who were in attendance at the SAAS Autism Awareness Day March 2009 we have included a selection of the handouts as both pdf's and power point slideshows. Simply click on the appropriate links below to download / open the file. Anja Rutt : The Autistic Spectrum An Introduction Jessica Peers : Dancing to a different Drum James Meakin : Living with Asperger's Jennie Murray : Asperger's and Me SAAS : Autism and the brain Nottingham University : Autism and the brain
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