Autism Plus: Promoting Positive Mental Health & Wellbeing

‘Autism Plus: Promoting Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in Autism’.

Our conference takes places on 4 December, in London. Standard rates for parents/carers are £115 but we have received funding from  for 10 subsidised places at just £10 each. These places are reserved specifically for parent/carers or people with autism attending from Wales.

The Research Autism ‘Lorna Wing’ series of conferences and seminars is designed for professionals, people with autism, and parents/carers.  They feature leading expert speakers, and previous conferences have gained excellent feedback from delegates. Our next conference in the series is:

Autism Plus: Promoting Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in Autism

Date: Wednesday 4 December 2013, 9am-4.30pm

Venue: Senate House, London WC1E

This conference will explore how co occurring conditions such as depression and anxiety, sleep, eating disorders, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD), and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affect children and adults on the autism spectrum. We shall also discuss approaches todiagnosis and assessment and importantly intervention.

Speakers will include:

·         Dr Helen Pearce, Consultant Psychiatrist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

·         Dr Miriam Cooper, Clinical Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychological Medicine & Clinical Neurosciences

·         Jo Stevens, Director, NAS Healthy Minds Programme, UK

·         Professor Paul Gringras, Paediatric Neurodisability and Sleep, Guys and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust

·         Professor Janet Treasure, Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute of Psychiatry

·         Dr Kate Tchanturia, Reader in Psychology of Eating Disorders, Psychological Medicine, King’s College London

·         Dr Amita Jassi, Clinical Psychologist, National and Specialist OCD CAMHS, Maudsley Hospital

Further details available on our website. To enquire about subsidised rates from  for people on the autism spectrum and parents/carers in Wales please contact Anoushka on 020 3490 3091 or events@researchautism.net Please note there are 10 places available at just £10, these will be booked on a first come first served basis. (Remaining non-funded places can be booked at our standard rate of £115 or £145 for professionals.)

Website www.researchautism.net