“Girls and Autism”
Theme: Needs and Issues Surrounding Girls with Autism
Speaker: Professor Barry Carpenter
Date: 19 April 2024 (Friday)
Time: 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong (HKU MTR Station)
Language: English with Cantonese/ Putonghua Simultaneous Interpretation
About the seminar
Girls with autism are often overlooked for support because their identifying behaviors can be different to that of boys. Leading practitioners from a range of disciplines bring their cutting-edge perspectives to provide insights, knowledge and strategies for educators at the front-line of working with girls on the autistic spectrum. Without a diagnosis of autism, girls on the autism spectrum can struggle with extreme stress, leading to mental health issues, problem behaviors, school refusal or other outcomes which impact on adult lives. This seminar will tell us what is Mental Health in education after years of pandemics and how to better understand girls with autism, enabling educators to recognize, understand, refer, support and teach them more effectively.
About the speaker
Barry Carpenter is the UK’s first Professor in Mental Health in Education, a Chair created for him at Oxford Brookes University. He is Honorary Professor at universities in the UK, Ireland, Germany and Australia. He has been a Fellow of the University of Oxford. In July 2020 he was awarded the Distinguished Fellowship of the Chartered College of Teaching , for his leadership of the Education field during the pandemic.
He has been awarded an OBE and CBE by the late Queen for services to children with Special Needs. In 2017 he was entered into “Who’s Who” in acknowledgement of his national and international contribution to the field of Special Education In 2022 , he was made Doctor of Letters ( D.Litt.) in recognition of his lifetime achievements in Education.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, Barry has held the leadership positions
of Headteacher, Principal, Academic Director, Chief Executive, and Director of the Centre for Special Education at Westminster College, Oxford. In 2009, he was appointed by the Secretary of State for Education as Director of the Children with Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Research Project. Since completing that research, Barry has overseen the development of a national project developing online ‘Training materials for teachers of children with severe, profound and complex learning disabilities” (www.complexneeds.org.uk).
He is the author of over 200 articles and many texts on a range of learning disability/special needs topics.) His co-authored 2 books on children with FASD, building on his post doctoral research in this area. . Additionally , his book , “Engaging Learners with Complex Needs” (Routledge), which outlined his research around Engagement as Pedagogy , has been further developed by the Rochford Review as a model for statutory summative assessment, with legislation to enshrine this enacted in 2021.
Barry lectures nationally and internationally. In recent years this has included China, Japan, Dubai, Australia , New Zealand , USA, and Germany. He is the co-founder of the National Forum for Neuroscience in Special Education. For the Mental Health Foundation, he Chaired the National Inquiry into the Mental Health of Young People with Learning Disabilities. He Chaired the National Forum on Girls and Autism ,which led to the publication in 2019 of his new, critically acclaimed ,co -authored book on this subject.
At the start of the global pandemic Barry became very concerned about the impact of the crisis on the mental health of children . With his son, Matthew , Principal of Baxter College , Worcestershire , he wrote the Recovery Curriculum Think Piece (www.recoverycurriculum.org). To date this has had over 500,000 hits on the host websites, and has guided many schools, agencies and Government Departments, in planning for the recovery and resilience of their children , post pandemic.
Barry has 3 children – one a School Principal, one a Senior Occupational Therapist and a daughter with Down’s Syndrome, who now has a home of her own, published her first book in 2017, and was on an Apprenticeship as a Teaching Assistant, but threw it all up to become an Actress!!!
Enquiry: caise@hku.hk / 852-3917-5828
「女孩與自閉症」認識她們的需要與支援策略
演講嘉賓：Barry Carpenter教授 (可到活動網頁取得講者簡介)
日期：2024年4月19日（星期五）
時間：下午2:00至下午5:00
地點：香港大學黃麗松講堂（香港大學港鐵站）
語言：英語（備有廣東話和普通話即時傳譯）
女孩自閉症常常被忽視，因為她們的表現行為可能與男孩有所不同。來自不同領域的行業領導者為與教導自閉症女孩的教育工作者提供具前瞻性的心得、知識和策略。如果沒有自閉症的診斷，自閉症女孩可能會面臨巨大壓力，導致出現心理健康問題、行為問題、拒絕上學或其他情況，這都會影響他們長大成人後後的生活。這研討會將探討經歷多年的疫情後，教育心理健康指的是什麼，以及如何進一步理解自閉症女孩，使教育工作者能夠更有效地識別、理解、轉介、支持和教育她們。
Barry Carpenter 教授簡歷
Barry Carpenter 教授是英國首位在教育領域擔任精神健康教育的教授，這個職位是在牛津布魯克斯大學為他特別設立的。 他還擁有英國、愛爾蘭、德國和澳大利亞等多個國家的名譽教授職位。 他曾經是牛津大學的研究員。 2020年7月，他因在疫情期間在教育領域的領導地位而獲得特許教學學院的傑出研究員榮譽職位。
他曾經獲得已故女王的OBE和CBE勛銜，以表彰他對具特殊需求兒童的貢獻。 2017年，他因其在特殊教育領域的國家和國際貢獻而被列入 「Who’s Who」榮譽榜。 2022年，他因其在教育領域的終身成就而被授予文學博士學位（D.Litt.）。
在他超過40年的職業生涯中，Barry曾擔任過校長、院長、教學主管、首席執行官和牛津威斯敏斯特特殊教育中心主任等領導職務。 2009年，他獲委任為「兒童複雜學習障礙和殘疾研究專案」的主管，自該研究完成以來，Barry監督開展了一個國家級項目，開發了在線「嚴重、深刻和複雜學習障礙兒童的教師培訓材料」（www.complexneeds.org.uk）。
他是超過200篇文章和多個關於學習障礙/特殊需求主題的文本的作者，其中包括他關於有FASD兒童的兩本合著書籍。 此外，他的著作《Engaging Learners with Complex Needs》（Routledge）圍繞“參與是教育學”的研究，被Rochford Review進一步發揚光大，並成為法定綜合評估的範例，2021年已實施成為法律。
Barry在全國和國際上進行演講，近年來包括中國、日本、迪拜、澳大利亞、紐西蘭、美國和德國。 他是國家特殊教育神經科學論壇的創始人。 他曾經主持過關於有學習障礙青少年的心理健康的全國調查，為此他主持了全國女孩與自閉症論壇，並在2019年出版了他的新作，這是一本受到好評的共同創作的書籍。 在全球大流行爆發之初，Barry對兒童的心理健康影響非常關注。 他和兒子Matthew一起寫了
《重回正軌課程》（www.recoverycurriculum.org）。 到目前為止，該課程已在主機網站上獲得了超過500,000次點擊，併為許多學校、機構和政府部門提供指導，以規劃兒童在疫情后的恢復和建立學生的耐性。
Barry有3個孩子-其中一個是學校校長，一個是高級職業治療師，還有一個患有唐氏綜合症的女兒，現在已經擁有自己的家，並於2017年出版了她的第一本書。 她曾經受過教學助理學徒培訓，但為了成為演員而放棄了這一切。