Dame Stephanie Shirley on Desert Island Discs. She has a great interest in Autism and has an autistic child.

[lottiejenkins]

here

her website

I've a feeling I've come across this organisation - someone quite interesting did a talk at an autism education conference. I liked their approach to adults with severe autism - basically, everyone can do something and contribute and they have creative ways of finding that 'something'.

I posted about this a while ago. She is the founder of DS's school which is great. I have met her a few times and she is very modest. Her son sadly died some years ago. I haven't listened to all of DIDs yet, got it on my Ipod as a podcast and just need to find time to listen to it properly. She is a remarkable woman.