Hacking Neurodiversity video series
The video series focuses on Autism and how we all must learn and love neurodiversity. Sharing some elements of the journey that families go on.
From diagnosis of how to get the appropriate assessment, through to how to access the right schooling, and ultimately sharing what this means for these wonderful children and their families as they grow up. This project in partnership with Inrehearsal has been a passion project for everyone involved here at ACS.
Graeme Lawrie, Producer
Graeme Lawrie is a qualified teacher and has been teaching for 25 years specialising in Technology, Computing, Electronics and Design. Starting his career at Oakham School in the Midlands as a teacher and house parent in a boarding house, he moved to Sevenoaks School in Kent in 2006 to take on a Head of Department role.
In 2009 he accepted the role of Head of Faculty for Science, developing the largest free Science event in the UK at the time, before progressing to the position of Director of Innovation and Excellence in 2012, which evolved into the role of Director of Outreach and Innovation in 2016. Graeme has held several other roles during his teaching career: working for OCR, AQA and the IB authoring guides, exams and other materials, and a yearlong secondment at Buckingham Palace as a Special Advisor in 2015.
Graeme received the Lloyds Trust Teacher Of The Year Award in 2005, Pearson Teacher Of The Year in 2012 and was named by TES as one of the top five UK science teachers in 2014. Graeme was awarded an MBE for his services to education as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020.
Graeme is passionate about social mobility and increased social capacity through education and has worked with hundreds of schools, refugee camps and other charities over the last ten years to give many opportunities to those in less fortunate circumstances.
Production Team
Inrehearsal connects people to industry-leading training and new ideas through broadcast quality content. Since our launch in 2018 we have worked with organisations like Google, BBC Studios and the Discovery Channel creating innovative digital content. Inrehearsal has previously collaborated with ACS on both virtual teaching and home-schooling projects.
This series has been created to bring to life some of the realities of living with this superpower. To help foster more understanding and acceptance too and to show quite simply how special children on the spectrum truly are.
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