15 Jan 2021 – Launch of the project.

17 Feb 2021The Autism Press Portrayals project features in Edge Hill University News.

02 April 2021 – We are busy with our corpus analyses. This is a word cloud showing the most common words in newspaper titles in a part of the corpus.

Autism word cloud
Autism word cloud

Autism representation in the Press

The UK’s national autism research charity Autistica has produced a guide aiming to help journalists and other media content producers write about autism and understand the needs of autistic interviewees.