Last Friday as part of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we had a return visit of the ever-popular Autism Bus to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.
The bus is an innovative, immersive and hands on training that gives non-autistic people an insight of the sensory processing difficulties faced by people on the autism spectrum.
Huge thanks to our colleagues Toseef Ahmed, Rachel Bennett, Amanda McKie and Jill Priestley for organising the event.
Almost 30 colleagues fed back their views – though many more of them came to experience the bus.
Here are just a few of the comments:
- Reading and learning does not compare to the feel of living with it, highly eye-opening experience.
- A very eye-opening experience. I think everyone should do this at least once, so they gain a better understanding of people on the spectrum.
- Gave an insight into how experiences can impact on an autistic person, even down to the smell of clothes, which you wouldn’t necessarily consider. Our grandson needs to have routine and if things change it takes a while for him to adapt.
- What an eye-opening experience! I will take my learning into my practice in the future.
- Puts you in someone else's shoes. An excellent demonstration of how it must feel in certain environments – highly recommend.
- This will shape how I think and act when dealing with staff and patients who have additional needs. It was an excellent way of stepping in your shoes and eye opening - thank you.
- It has opened my eyes to Autism.