Supporting Autistic Adults who have Experienced Intimate Violence and Abuse
Delivered by Dr Amy Pearson
Content Warning: Grooming, Abuse and Coercive Control
Autistic people experience violence and abuse at an alarming rate. In this talk presents findings from research, which asked autistic people themselves about how they perceive and make sense of the experience of violence, and what we can better do to support them.
The aim of this research was to transcend the notion of ‘individual vulnerability’ and resituate heightened risk and negative outcomes within an ecological framework which acknowledges the wider role that stigma and ableism have to play in the outcomes of autistic people.
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