Most autistic people are adults. We’re understanding autism at every age to improve diagnosis, support and services.

We’re developing and testing self-help tools for autistic people and their families.

We’re understanding autism across people’s lives to improve adult diagnosis, support and services.

Autistic women are much more likely to develop anorexia. This project will provide evidence to improve treatment and services.

A therapy to protect against stigma and isolation

Families helped us to test the feasibility of an Incredible Years for autism parenting programme.

We worked with families to improve support for them after their child received their autism diagnosis.

Autistic people are more likely to have poor mental health and consider suicide. We're funding research to find out why.

We're working with autistic people with learning disabilities to improve their mental health.

We're working with parents of autistic children to help them tackle uncertainty in their everyday lives.

We're investigating the link between sensory reactivity and anxiety in autistic children.

PECS is widely used but there is limited research to show its effectiveness. We will conduct a randomised trial to understand how parents can use PECS at home.

This trial aims to test a new parent-led therapy to help autistic children with an intellectual disability to reduce anxiety.

Our research in Cambridge is unpicking the unique aspects of anxiety in autism to develop evidence-based and autism-specific anxiety treatments.

We’re working with The Alan Turing Institute and the autism community to create the largest ever collection of sensory experiences.

Many autistic people have epilepsy. This research will create a database of autistic people taking anti epileptic drugs to understand how effective they are.

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh worked with autistic adults and professionals to improve residential care for older adults.

We've partnered with Epilepsy Research UK and Young Epilepsy to better understand the link between autism and epilepsy.

This project aims to better understand how services for people with drug and alcohol problems can support autistic adults.

This project explores the social care priorities of older autistic adults.

This project explores the social care priorities of homeless autistic adults.

This project explores Social Prescribing pathways for autistic adults.

We partnered on the Neurodiversity in Gaming project, which explores key topics in online gaming and how they relate to neurodivergent young people.

Autism Central is a peer education programme that empowers families of autistic people to improve their knowledge about autism and navigate services.

Learn more about our current research, focusing on the issues that matter the most to autistic people and their families.

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