Autism: A Personal Journey – with Dame Stephanie Shirley

Information technology pioneer and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley shares her personal journey of autism in the context of our developing understanding of the condition.
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An estimated 700,000 people in Britian are affected by autism. In this Discourse, Dame Stephanie Shirley will share her hands-on experience of the disorder – including introducing the robot which teaches at Prior’s Court, her specialist autism school.

Dame Stephanie Shirley is an information technology pioneer and philanthropist. Her charitable organisation, The Shirley Foundation, facilitates scientific research aimed at understanding what autism is as opposed to what it looks like.

This Discourse was filmed at the Royal Institution on 28 April 2017.

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