How do autistic people experience public places due to the sensory environment?
How can we educate people about sensory processing differences and inspire them to make public places more enabling for autistic people?
These are the questions that Sensory Street aims to answer. We work with autistic people and the wider autism community to conduct research that has an impact.
Our publications
Manning, C., Williams, G., & MacLennan, K. (2023). Sensory-inclusive spaces for autistic people: We need to build the evidence base. Autism, 0(o). https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231183541
MacLennan, K., Woolley, C., @ 21andsensory, E., Heasman, B., Starns, J., George, B., & Manning, C. (2022). “It is a big spider web of things: sensory experiences of autistic adults in public spaces”, Autism in Adulthood. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0024
Read our research summaries:
As well as reading our publications, we have written easy-to-read research summaries for each of our studies:
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