Autism and Deafness Research

[Amelia Ralph-Lewis]

Hello,

My name is Amelia and I am a research assistant with the Child Orientated Mental Health Intervention Centre looking at diagnosing Autism in deaf children. To give you a little background about our study, we are recruiting families with children aged 2-18 who are either deaf, deaf with a diagnosis of ASD or hearing with a diagnosis of ASD. We have worked with international experts to adapt three autism assessment tools to make them more accessible for deaf children and young people. Surprisingly, current assessment tools have not been designed with deaf children in mind and many are often misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all! We hope that this research will help us to develop better assessment tools, understand more about how autism presents in deaf and hearing children and support families in receiving the right support

Autism regularly goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed in deaf children because inappropriate assessments are being used. We are currently recruiting:

-          Deaf children with autism

-          Deaf children with no autism

-          Hearing children with autism

Please email me at amelia.ralph-lewis@nhs.net if you can help out and I hope to hear from you soon! 

[Leks]

For my college project I am trying to invlove the BsL community more within the musical industry. 

Part of my project is market research so please could you guys do my survey I would be very grateful 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8NTPMF5 

Thank you