Autistic Teachers in Australia

A recap of the research project's aims and findings....

The first research article that was published from from this project, 'The lived experiences of autistic teachers: A review of the literature' (StEvens, 2024), has been garnering growing readership from around the world, helping to highlight this important subject and inspire researchers around the world to begin investigating the lived experiences of autistic teachers in their own countries!

I am so excited about the prospect of the second paper from the Autistic Teachers in Australia project being published, as it will be the first time that the voices of autistic teachers' in Australia will be showcased in research literature!

Research matters, it really does help to manifest positive changes in society 😊

Graduation day! Many people were so thankful about the research project. The first paper of findings is still with the journal waiting for peer review. This stage of the process can take so long! Once complete, however, it will be shared first here!

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

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Exciting news! The research project is now in its final stages. The first journal article of results is almost ready for publication.

For all participants in this study who left contact details, you will be contacted soon with the first reveal of results from this project.

This is real teaching; allowing student autonomy to learn in the best way for them. It's amazing how people can thrive when they are allowed to be themselves

Why is there such little research regarding autistic teachers? Do they even exist?

Read the literature review to find out answers to these questions, and more!

(PDF) The lived experience of autistic teachers: a review of the literature PDF | To date, discussion regarding autism in education has been primarily concerned with autistic students, and research usually relates to pedagogical... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Autistic teachers seem to excel at inclusive pedagogy... maybe this is the reason why?

Love this.

Our research project examining the lived experience of autistic teachers has found that neurodivergent students benefit from having openly autistic teachers, who can show them that they can be successful and fully functioning members of the community as adults, which helps to counteract the negative deficits-based view of neurodivergence that is perpetuated by the medical model and is the dominant view held by neurotypical people in society.

A beautiful reminder from our friends at Reframing Autism about the importance of giving Autistic young people access to the Autistic community. We are very proud to provide Autistic-led mentoring to more than 2000 young people each year.

Image description: Multicoloured watercolour dots with yellow circle. Within the yellow circle, text reads: "Autistic children need Autistic adult role models. They need Autistic adults who are "out and proud" about their Autism." Reframing Autism logo in lower left corner.

An appropriate reflection for Autism Acceptance Week.

Can schools really be inclusive if autistic teachers are not accommodated?

The coding of all the collected data has been finalised! Just one more week of analysis and then it is time to write up the findings 😁

To all those who participated in the research project, you will be emailed a brief synopsis of the findings before publication.
If anyone else would also like to be mailed these initial findings, please provide your name and email address to researcher Cat StEvens through the 'contact' page on the website:

Autistic Teachers in Australia Autism research by an autistic researcher