PRESENTATIONS & ARTICLES
Making sense in a fragmentary world. Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorders. power point presentation
Prof. dr. Ilse Noens
Is assistant professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the KU-Leuven Belgium and visiting researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (USA). Former assistant professor in Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies at the Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Universal Design (and autism) power point presentation
Prof. drs. Hubert Froyen
Is professor in architecture at the University College Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, and initiator of the Belgian Universal Design Education Project
Evaluation of the impact of autism specific accommodation on children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) power point presentation
Teresa Whitehurst
Research and Development Officer at Sunfield Research Institute
Architecture: Taking autism into account or not? ( case study) full text
Simon Humphreys
A qualified architect who has designed a number of buildings for people with ASD, including schools, residential units and day care facilities. He also has an older
brother with ASD.
Designing learning spaces for children on the autism spectrum full text
Iain Scott
is an architect and in this paper he sets out the key criteria which need to be borne in mind when designing learning environments for children on the autism spectrum. He illustrates these points by looking in detail at four newly created units and schools. It is a very rich paper and will be a great asset to architects, designers, teaching staff and pupils involved in creating effective spaces where children feel comfortable and within which they enhance their learning potential.
They Eyes of the Mind. Architecture and Mental Disability full text
BAUMERS Stijn, HEYLIGHEN Ann (2009) “The Eyes of the Mind. Architecture & Mental Disability”, NORDES’09, 3rd Nordic Design Research Conference, Oslo, August 30-Sept 1, 2009, 4 p.
