Autismity offered a powerful experience that deepened students’ empathy and understanding, enhancing their ability to apply insights to practice and academic work.
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123 Main Street, New York, NY 10001
Autismity offered a powerful experience that deepened students’ empathy and understanding, enhancing their ability to apply insights to practice and academic work.
We give them a VR headset and show them how they would perceive having a coffee in a local coffee shop. Then the new staff experience the same situation the way a person with autism might experience. Our staff all work with multiple people we support, so the autism simulator gives a perfect idea of what the supported people might experience in such an outing and why they might start to behave in a certain way. Autismity is a great starting point for discussing different strategies what to do in such situations
