CYP Wellbeing seminar series: Dr Aimee Grant - Supporting Autistic people through pregnancy and the fourth trimester

Bio:

Aimee Grant is a Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow at Swansea University Centre for Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation. She has researched marginalised pregnancy and early motherhood for the past decade, including those living in poverty, stigmatised locations and Disabled women. Aimee's current research is an 8 year Wellcome Trust funded longitudinal study using visual methods to understand Autistic experiences "from menstruation to menopause". She is the author of two Documentary Analysis texts (Routledge, 2019; Policy Press, 2022), and is currently writing The Autism Friendly Guide to Pregnancy (and the fourth trimester), Managing Your Research Project, with Pat Thompson, Helen Kara and Inger Mewburn (Routledge), and is editing Using Documents in Research, with Helen Kara (Policy Press).

Abstract:

Autism is a normal part of cognitive diversity, and around 1 in 125 of births in the UK are to those with a diagnosis of Autism. In this presentation, I will discuss my research on Autistic people’s experiences of maternity care, and the entirely Autistic-developed resources “Autistic pregnancy, birth and beyond: your questions answered.” I will end by arguing that good maternity care for Autistic people follows the principles of universal design, and would benefit all service users.