Emily Niner

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Emily Niner

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Emily Niner

Post-diagnostic autism support for 14 to 18-year-olds

Fellowship

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Focus

Producing resources and online peer support for teenagers diagnosed with autism

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Fellowship year

2019

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Locality

London

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Biography

I am the Participation Programme Manager at Ambitious about Autism, designing and delivering a programme for young autistic people across England.

My Fellowship looked at the support young people were receiving after an autism diagnosis – an area that the young people I supported told me was incredibly lacking. I worked with them to decide on my Fellowship, where I would visit and shared my findings on my return to help decide what we would focus on as an organisation.

Since my return, my team at Ambitious have worked with autistic young people to co-produce content, both videos and articles, for their peers to access after diagnosis. We are also developing a support course that will be co-delivered by young people to help make sense of diagnosis and equip them with the knowledge and skills they need to advocate for themselves and their needs.

Going on my Fellowship was a life-changing opportunity for me. It opened doors, creating contacts across the world who I still talk to and go to for advice, and allowed me to create new resources with and for young people where before there were none.

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