we can work together.
Eliza Eaton is an autistic educator, advocate, and community engagement professional who has spent over a decade helping others learn how to understand the needs and perspectives of those with experiences and priorities different from their own. She has devoted her life to facilitating effective engagement across backgrounds, neurotypes, and cultures.
Eliza Can help.
Speaking
After years of teaching teenagers, Eliza is comfortable speaking and presenting to audiences of any size and makeup about a wide variety of topics within her areas of interest.
If you are seeking a speaker for your organisation or panelist with both professional expertise and lived experience in the field of autism research, reach out for more information.
Engagement
There is no substitute for dedicated, thoughtful, accessible engagement that prioritises the goals of the autistic community.
The best move is to hire a full-time engagement professional to coordinate. But with the funding landscape the way it is, this often isn’t feasible. Eliza can talk your team through some other options.
training
Engaging, effective professional development sessions can help anyone working with neurodivergent stakeholders understand the best practices for engaging with the community.
Talk to Eliza about training sessions that meet your researchers where they are, and in the meantime support your staff with the videos and resources she has made available free of charge.
collaboration
Areas of interest for Eliza include support for neurodivergent researchers, quality autistic-focused sex and relationship education, pregnancy and barriers to effective care for autistic parents, autistic burnout, autism and queerness, and hyperlexia. (Also, sex and gender in Ancient Rome, and the Black Death.) Schedule permitting, she is always thrilled to hear from potential collaborators.
About Eliza
Eliza Eaton grew up as an undiagnosed autistic and ADHD girl in Carmel, Indiana, USA. Despite her hyperlexia, autistic family members, a lifelong obsession with the Black Death, and multiple visible stims, she wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood. She has always enjoyed learning, but did not enjoy school - so she became a teacher.
Educated at the University of St. Andrews and the London School of Economics, she returned to the United Kingdom after almost a decade in Colorado, and currently works as the Community Engagement Co-ordinator for AIMS-2-TRIALS.
recently on the blog…
“It is ironic that by insisting researchers use a ‘semantic tool’ that adds an artificial division solely to make parents of some autistic people feel seen, promoters of the term are doing the very thing they accuse others of doing: ignoring the reality of autism.”
— Precisely Imprecise: The Problem With 'Profound'
nothing about us without us ∞
nothing about us without us ∞