Marisa is a part-time PhD student, looking at issues for autistic adolescents. As an experienced Speech and Language Therapist, she is passionate about supporting communication and how environments can be changed to allow increased social engagement. Her research aims to work with autistic young people and those around them, identifying enabling factors and barriers to participation in secondary school. She is supervised by Dr Eilidh Cage, Dr Catherine Grainger and Dr Mary Stewart (Heriot-Watt).
Latest Posts
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STAR Autumn/Winter Newsletter 2022
Read all about what the STAR team have been up to over the last few months! Download our latest newsletter here: STAR Newsletter Autumn Winter…
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Autism Europe conference
Dr Eilidh Cage is attending Autism Europe to present recent research on the topic of adult autism diagnosis. You can view/download the poster below to…
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Survey season!
You may have noticed that at around this time of year, lots of researchers are looking for participants on Twitter! Part of the reason for…
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STAR Statement on a recently funded project at Stirling.
We have recently learned of a newly funded project at the University of Stirling called “The Cortical Head Direction System as a Model for Systems-level…