In the first episode of The AMASE Research Podcast, Sonny and Fergus talk with Dr Sue Fletcher-Watson, Senior Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh's Patrick Wild Centre, mostly about the Diversity in Social Intelligence project. This is an experiment looking at whether autistic people communicate better with each other than people do between different neurotypes.

Read about it at https://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/
Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ViwMTiBCg1Ju5Ctr1zfhjMfhQ0MNPxbh1ZKUmkL_JI/edit?usp=sharing
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Sue Fletcher-Watson on Diversity in Social Intelligence

In the second episode of The AMASE Research Podcast, Sonny and Fergus talk to Bérengère Digard, a PhD student at Edinburgh University, about language and thinking. Bérengère is researching the cognitive effects of bilingualism in autistic and non-autistic adults. Many autistic kids have been excluded from language learning on questionable expert advice, and she's investigating whether the opportunity to develop cognitive skills like perspective-taking might make actually language learning especially valuable for autistic people.

Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OBD8oI0iSawsqEZ5Iz6Ad0tRn3K76RizNaOz1nvMHGk/edit?usp=sharing

Call for participants: https://twitter.com/BerengereDigard/status/1093550840302964739

Research page: http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/berengere/

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Bérengère Digard on autism and bilingualism in adults

In the second of two podcasts on the general theme of bilingualism and autism, Sonny & Fergus talk with Rachael Davis about her work looking at the benefits of bilingualism on child development.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17MbU6dLXVCSWiTn5GK73If-_rOtbekkmObjbj2K3nfI/edit?usp=sharing

Rachael's research: http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/bilingualism-autism-project2/

AMASE site: http://amase.org.uk/

Rachael Davis on Bilingualism in Children

We talked to Maggi Laurie at the University of Edinburgh about how autistic children play, the impact of technology on social interaction, and the development of joint attention. 

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1csACyl01gJ0r5Y4EMGlRT5Q6f7b1J_DGP8nNQs07oU0/edit?usp=sharing
Maggi's project page: http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/autism-tech-play/
Maggi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_mlaurie
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Maggi Laurie on Technology, Play and Joint Attention

Cameron Maitland, a PhD student in Edinburgh, talks with Sonny & Fergus about his work on social identification and the mental health of autistic people.

We discussed the autistic community and other communities, the value of social connections and some parallels between the neurodiversity movement and the movement for the rights and acceptance of gay people.

Transcript of this interview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYq7cp8c3PWFs73VjeUXN6bDI35rYJYocEqN7gxP_Gs/edit?usp=sharing

Cameron is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/c_a_maitland

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Cameron Maitland on Social Identification

Autistic Mutual Aid Society Edinburgh is an Autistic People’s Organisation. All members are on the autistic spectrum, and our goal is to help autistic people make each other’s lives better through peer support, advocacy and education.

In the AMASE Research Podcast, autistic interviewers talk with autism researchers about their work, and how they see it benefiting autistic people.

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