Supporting the Mental Health of Autistic Students

Around 2% of students are autistic, and the group is growing as more young people with a diagnosis enter higher education. However, because of the history of conflating autism with learning disability, many universities have only recently recognised that they have autistic students and many systems do not support autistic students well.

Who are we?What have we done?

NDinHE Conference

To celebrate the achievements of the project, and to share our findings with interested people, we organised the Neurodiversity in Higher Education conference on 15th September 2023 in Bristol.

Training in Supporting Autistic Students

This course is designed to help student-facing staff understand and support autistic students’ mental health. It was created in collaboration with autistic students so that it reflects their own experiences.

About the project

Background

Facts, figures, challenges and project aims

What was included

Training content overview and useful resources

What we found

Statistical findings and what our trainees thought

What have we done?

Working with students and advisors to develop the training

What next?

Developing an online independent training module

Meet the team

Investigators, advisors and other participants