Dr. Susan Crawford:

Our get out and active courses are all around. We start off with autism awareness, understanding and acceptance and work through things like sensory integration and all of that. Then we bring you through to how you develop movement skills for autistic children and adults. That has just gone for review to Liverpool John Moores University, which is looking to include it as a postgraduate master’s programme.

Like Ms McSherry is saying, we are all about empowering people to do the best they can with what they have. Autistic people particularly need to be empowered to participate. That is a big part of this. My son has every label going and he is after running the best part of 3,000 km up the Wild Atlantic Way in 2019 so there is no reason people cannot develop and be actively engaged in everyday life. It can make all the difference in social and emotional communication and in health-related benefits. There is so much more to be gained by developing home movement.