Young people with HF Autism to participate in an awareness film clip

Hi KaloJaro,

Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback.

Yes, we mentioned the social enterprise. It basicaly means that we want to operate as a social enterprise (Social enterprises are businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. )

Our experience is varied and stretches across more than a decade, however I believe that there is always more to learn and we can always make improvements by listening to feedback and respecting other people's opinions.

Catherine has been working for years with families whose children have Autism and we have both worked in a school specifically for students with Autism, where we recieved extensive training- I learnt a lot during my time there. I have worked at different projects with adults who have Autism and also worked as a nanny for a young boy with Autism.

We have recently been to a training specifically on Aspergers and we learnt a lot during the recent Autism Show in London. However, we plan to continue with our learning and will always want to gain further experience.

Catherine has a lot of formal training and I have specialist experience related to my Masters and Art Psychtherapy training.

I will stop there because this isn't an interview

Yes, we certainly understand that seemingly placating or harmless posts can be percieved with suspicion and experienced as threatening and agressive. So we welcome your feedback and we will do everything we can to learn from it.

We have a friend who has Aspergers and he is interested in getting involved in the project, so we will be getting advice from him to guide us.

We will work as hard as we can to learn as much as we can during this project. Also, we should point out that we are not setting up a service to work exclusively with individuals on the spectrum- our main objective is to educate NT students.

To clarify- our filming is just one part of our project. It is going to involve an adult with Aspergers who is happy to take part (and has a lot of experience in public speaking about Autism) and also some NT children. There may or may not be any children with Autism (this depends on whether they and their parents wish to be involved.) 

Like the previous feedback from recombinantsocks and longman, Your feedback has been extremely valuable to us and we are really grateful.

We agree with you 100% that whilst 'Autism is just one part of an individual's personality', it is also a very important part and that important 'differences' do exist. We agree with you that everybody should accept these differences.

In order to 'accept' people need to be 'aware' and we hope that our work will encourage this.

We do not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable and we are grateful that you have highlighted this.

Finally, we agree that all the concerns raised are valid.

We are continously learning and will always be keen to make positive changes to our ideas and plans as a result of feedback.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Abi 

Hi KaloJaro,

Thank you for taking the time to give us feedback.

Yes, we mentioned the social enterprise. It basicaly means that we want to operate as a social enterprise (Social enterprises are businesses that trade to tackle social problems, improve communities, people’s life chances, or the environment. )

Our experience is varied and stretches across more than a decade, however I believe that there is always more to learn and we can always make improvements by listening to feedback and respecting other people's opinions.

Catherine has been working for years with families whose children have Autism and we have both worked in a school specifically for students with Autism, where we recieved extensive training- I learnt a lot during my time there. I have worked at different projects with adults who have Autism and also worked as a nanny for a young boy with Autism.

We have recently been to a training specifically on Aspergers and we learnt a lot during the recent Autism Show in London. However, we plan to continue with our learning and will always want to gain further experience.

Catherine has a lot of formal training and I have specialist experience related to my Masters and Art Psychtherapy training.

I will stop there because this isn't an interview

Yes, we certainly understand that seemingly placating or harmless posts can be percieved with suspicion and experienced as threatening and agressive. So we welcome your feedback and we will do everything we can to learn from it.

We have a friend who has Aspergers and he is interested in getting involved in the project, so we will be getting advice from him to guide us.

We will work as hard as we can to learn as much as we can during this project. Also, we should point out that we are not setting up a service to work exclusively with individuals on the spectrum- our main objective is to educate NT students.

To clarify- our filming is just one part of our project. It is going to involve an adult with Aspergers who is happy to take part (and has a lot of experience in public speaking about Autism) and also some NT children. There may or may not be any children with Autism (this depends on whether they and their parents wish to be involved.) 

Like the previous feedback from recombinantsocks and longman, Your feedback has been extremely valuable to us and we are really grateful.

We agree with you 100% that whilst 'Autism is just one part of an individual's personality', it is also a very important part and that important 'differences' do exist. We agree with you that everybody should accept these differences.

In order to 'accept' people need to be 'aware' and we hope that our work will encourage this.

We do not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable and we are grateful that you have highlighted this.

Finally, we agree that all the concerns raised are valid.

We are continously learning and will always be keen to make positive changes to our ideas and plans as a result of feedback.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Abi