Text: eNewsletter - December 2022. Happy holidays.

Wishing you a happy holiday season

Our 2021-22 Annual Report marks a major milestone for Autism CRC, our Members, and other partners. This was the final year of our foundation Cooperative Research Centre Program, with our Commonwealth CRC Funding Agreement and our Participant Agreements coming to an end on 30 June 2022. The year also saw arrangements formalised for our legacy operations, commencing on 1 July 2022, and continuing our work with, and for, the autistic and autism communities utilising the same collaborative stakeholder model nationally and internationally.

This Annual Report rightly recognises and celebrates our activities, outputs and unique collaboration over the CRC Program from 2013 to 2022. It also highlights how we continue to build on those foundations to advance autism-related practice and policy beyond the CRC Program, again underpinned by the principles of co-design and co-production with stakeholders.

From all of us at Autism CRC, we wish you the best for a safe and happy holiday season. We hope that you will join us in the New Year as we continue into our next phase, expanding our work and further realising our vision to see autistic people with quality of life and opportunity.

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Join us for the Inclusive Classroom webinar series

We are excited to announce that inclusionED is hosting a series of free webinars in Term 1 2023 called The Inclusive Classroom!

We’ve got a fantastic group of speakers ready, so get set to learn more about some fascinating and important topics around inclusive education. Webinar subjects include:

Anxiety in the classroom
Sensory needs
Neurodiversity in the classroom
Positively engaging families
Foundation practices for early career teachers.

Congratulations Chloe Yap

Congratulations to Chloe Yap, winner of the 2022 CSL Florey Next Generation Award. This is an amazing achievement for Chloe and was announced at the Australian Association of Medical Research Institutes' (AAMRI) Annual Dinner at Australian Parliament House on 29 November.

Chloe's PhD explored the autism-gut microbiome link – using data from Autism CRC’s Australian Autism Biobank – to debunk the myth that the gut microbiome causes autism. The work received world-wide attention in November last year when the results were published in the high impact journal, Cell. A great example of collaborative research with real world impacts for autistic people, and thanks to the generosity of the participants of the Australian Autism Biobank.

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Professor Sandra Jones and Professor Andrew Whitehouse

Autism CRC Research Award recipient announced

Professor Sandra Jones from Australian Catholic University has received Autism CRC’s Award for Achievement in Autism Spectrum Research in Inclusive Autism Research. Autism CRC’s Research Strategy Director, Professor Andrew Whitehouse, presented the award at the Australasian Society for Autism Research (ASfAR) conference in Geelong.

Professor Jones’ project, Autistic in Academia, sought to understand why the growing number of autistic academics remain largely absent from the academic literature.

Longitudinal data value-add

Congratulations to Dawn Adams and the team at Griffith University who were recently awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. Their project aims to identify the factors that put autistic children at increased risk of missing school, and map the supports and interventions used to reduce school non-attendance.

Part of the study will follow up the younger cohort from Autism CRC’s Longitudinal Study of Australian Students with Autism (LASA) to see what, if anything, from the six years of LASA data, predicts later school non-attendance. This is a remarkable use of the longitudinal dataset, and a great example of the value of such assets to continuing research addressing the needs of the community.

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Text: Aotearoa New Zealand Autism Guideline: He Waka Huia Takiwatanga Rau. Third edition.

New Zealand releases updated guideline

The Aotearoa New Zealand Autism Guideline: He Waka Huia Takiwātanga Rau (‘the Guideline’) describes best practice on how to support autistic people in New Zealand.

Newly revised as a third edition in 2022, the Guideline considers autism (takiwātanga) across the whole of a person’s life – from early childhood through to adulthood.

The guideline includes over 300 evidence-based recommendations. These were developed by clinicians, educators, researchers, and people with lived experience, and are based on reviews of local and international research.

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Established in 2013, Autism CRC is the world’s first national, cooperative research effort focused on autism. We are the independent national source of evidence for best practice in relation to autism across the lifespan and the spectrum.

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