Our achievements

Posted on 14 Oct 2022

Staff from Rampton have been sharing their fantastic work on increasing autism acceptance on an international scale.

Nicola Shinn, Ward Manager (right) and Sarah Foster, Neurodiverse Lead Nurse (below) from Aintree Ward at Rampton Hospital recently attended the 13^th Autism International Congress in Krakow in Poland.

They presented a poster and delivered a presentation about “Increasing Autism Acceptance within Forensic Services”

They presented the work they have done on Aintree Ward on developing an autism service and the work they have done in promoting autism acceptance amongst the hospital as a whole.

The key points they presented were around:

• promoting autism acceptance
• making reasonable adjustments to practice
• adapting the environment
• focus on sensory informed care
• using person centred communication

Nicola Shinn, Ward Manager said:

“The three-day conference was extremely beneficial to share knowledge and information from a multitude of fields about autism throughout the lifespan, we networked with a range of individuals from across the globe from researchers, practitioners, autistic people, families and carers from such places as USA, Poland, Ireland, Belgium, Japan and Denmark! We’ll be in touch with those professionals to liaise with them for research and knowledge sharing.

“It was of real importance to share research and knowledge about autism with professionals from across the globe, learn from other countries practices and understand other countries societal acceptance of autism. It appears from the congress that the National Autistic Society and the UK in general are leading the way for autism acceptance. We will continue to share and signpost any information.”