Living with autism: what’s your superpower? a personal reflection
Living with autism: what’s your superpower? a personal reflection
Following the Autism Act 2009 and subsequent publications, the University of Southampton's Faculty of Health Sciences introduced an interactive e-learning package through enhancing and harmonising its learning resources, to enable students to effectively work with individuals living with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The resource encompasses reading material, quizzes checking self-knowledge, links to external resources, video links and hearing those living with autism, and can be accessed by students at a time convenient to their learning needs and placement activities. With the increasing numbers of women with a known ASD, midwives will need to adapt behaviours, environments and care packages, and support women through their transition to parenthood. Based on the lead author's experience as a parent and carer of someone living with an ASD, this article explores the challenge for midwives to experience the world from a different perspective, embrace it and become understanding and more tolerant of difference and diversity.
autism, asperger's syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, e-learning resource, maternity service users, student midwives
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Kitson-Reynolds, Ellen
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Kitson, William
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Humphrys, Kevin
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9 November 2015
Kitson-Reynolds, Ellen
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Kitson, William
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Humphrys, Kevin
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Kitson-Reynolds, Ellen, Kitson, William and Humphrys, Kevin
(2015)
Living with autism: what’s your superpower? a personal reflection.
British Journal of Midwifery, 23 (11), .
(doi:10.12968/bjom.2015.23.11.808).
Abstract
Following the Autism Act 2009 and subsequent publications, the University of Southampton's Faculty of Health Sciences introduced an interactive e-learning package through enhancing and harmonising its learning resources, to enable students to effectively work with individuals living with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The resource encompasses reading material, quizzes checking self-knowledge, links to external resources, video links and hearing those living with autism, and can be accessed by students at a time convenient to their learning needs and placement activities. With the increasing numbers of women with a known ASD, midwives will need to adapt behaviours, environments and care packages, and support women through their transition to parenthood. Based on the lead author's experience as a parent and carer of someone living with an ASD, this article explores the challenge for midwives to experience the world from a different perspective, embrace it and become understanding and more tolerant of difference and diversity.
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Published date: 9 November 2015
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autism, asperger's syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, e-learning resource, maternity service users, student midwives
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Faculty of Health Sciences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/385298
ISSN: 0969-4900
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