Our conferences give you the opportunity to hear from leading experts in autism and related fields. Below you can find out about some of the key speakers at our conferences.
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John Clements
John is a clinical psychologist, specialising for nearly 40 years in developmental disabilities in general and autism in particular. He has focused on finding practical supports for people with significant behavioural challenges. He has authored and co-authored several books on behaviour, most recently People with autism behaving badly (2005) and Transition or transformation? (2010, co-authored with Julia Hardy and Stephanie Lord). |
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Dr Juli Crocombe
Juli is a consultant forensic psychiatrist for people with learning disabilities and has worked for over ten years with people with autism with severely challenging and/or offending behaviour. She is 'Responsible Clinician' for Ellesmere House, a low secure unit for people with a learning disability and/or autism. The National Autistic Society consults Juli on a range of specialist issues, which she advises the Government on, on our behalf. She also assists us in providing training for professionals and carers, and is a member of the editorial board for our annual Professional Conference. |
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Christopher Gillberg
Christopher is a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the universities of Gothenburg, London and Strathclyde, and the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He is a chief physician at the Child Neuropsychiatry Clinic at Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Sahlgrenska. He is also the founding editor of the journal of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an editor of various journals. He has published over 500 international peer-reviewed papers. |
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Judith Gould
Judith is director and co-founder of The National Autistic Society's Lorna Wing Centre for Autism. She is a chartered consultant clinical psychologist with over 35 years of experience specialising in autism and learning disabilities. Previously she worked as a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council's social psychiatry unit and as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. Her and Lorna Wing's work in the 1970s on the epidemiology of autism and related conditions led to the concept of a spectrum of autism conditions. |
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Dr Glenys Jones
Glenys is a chartered psychologist and a lecturer and researcher at the Autism Centre for Education and Research, University of Birmingham. She has researched educational interventions for people with autism for over 25 years and is editor of the Good Autism Practice Journal. She is currently helping to produce a DVD and online resource on autism for all mainstream primary and secondary schools in England, produced by the Department for Education. |
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Lynne Moxon
Lynne is the consultant psychologist to Education and Services for People with Autism (ESPA), a Sunderland-based charity. She is a senior lecturer at Northumbria University, where she runs the MA in autism. She also provides specialist consultancy and training to a variety of organisations and teaches socio-sexual skills to groups of young people with autism every week. |
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Dr Helen Pearce
Helen is a consultant psychiatrist. She helped set up a pilot adult autism spectrum service in Tees Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation Trust, which she continues to be involved in. She has extensive experience in autism, working in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), learning disability CAMHS, adult mental health services, and learning disability adult services, as well as in developing specialist forensic services. |
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Anya Ustaszewski
Anya is on the autism spectrum. She strongly supports the principles of autism rights and the social model of disability. She is a composer/sonic artist and musician. She is on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE) Guideline Development Group for the Management of Autism in Adults. She is also an active member of the online autism community, moderating the Spectrumites forum. |
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Dr Lorna Wing
Lorna is a founding member of The National Autistic Society. She has a lifetime of experience in the field of autism and learning disabilities through her work with the Medical Research Council's social psychiatry unit. Her published work on autism has challenged and changed the thinking in the field. She has influenced researchers not only in the UK but worldwide. Her daughter has autism and Lorna has therefore always championed the rights of parents. Although officially retired, she continues to support the work of The National Autistic Society and acts as consultant to the charity's Lorna Wing Centre for Autism. |