Acceptance Matters Society doing better Health & Wellbeing Learn Our Language Autistic Identity Autism Activists Support & Expression Post-Conference Services Share & Connect Home Home Nurturing autistic youth Alexithymia Gender and Identity Double empathy School based anxiety Acceptance Matters is a virtual conference hosted by the North East Autism Society. Featuring a panel of autistic speakers, the conference will cover topics including double empathy, school-based anxiety and nurturing autistic young people. The event takes place on Friday, 26th May from 9.30am. Places are limited, so please register to secure your place. Click on the signposts on the interactive map to find out more about the topics and speakers. Sign up to the conference Home Conference Details Speakers Dr Damian Milton Eliza Fricker Erin Ekins Quinn Dexter Cathy Wassell Lauren Osbourne Katie Toner Conference Schedule Help & FAQs Book Tickets Contact Us Back to main website Inclusion and Belonging Presenter: Krysia Waldock In the past, research has demonstrated that inclusion and belonging are important for autistic people. However, what this actually looks like, and how autistic people’s experiences impact the manner in which autistic people define inclusion and belonging is generally less known. In this talk, Krysia will examine her PhD research, asking autistic people what belonging and inclusion means to them, alongside her own experiences as an autistic adult in the form of an ‘aut-ethnography’, linking these threads to acceptance. Krysia will also give some suggestions on how these ideas and findings can be transferred into practice in education, health and social care, and how providing an inclusive space that is sensitive to autistic needs (including sensory), destigmatises autistic people and is sensitive to the double empathy problem can assist in feelings of belonging and inclusion. About the presenter Krysia Waldock (pronounced kri-shah; she/her) is an autistic PhD candidate at the University of Kent whose work explores inclusion and belonging for autistic people in belief and non-belief contexts. She is also a research assistant at Kent’s Institute for Cyber Security in Society, Kent’s PARC convenor and a member of the disability conference planning team at Inclusive Church. She is committed to lifting the autistic voice to be heard in research spheres. She is also a keen swimmer and lives by the sea on the Kent coast. Follow Krysia on Twitter Manage Cookie Preferences