The Emotional Lives of Young People with Autism

Hui-Fen Wu is a teacher at an elementary school in Taipei, Taiwan, where she works with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). In addition, she also assesses SEND children from across Taipei and makes recommendations regarding their future education. She has also conducted research into the emotionality of autism in the UK.

Prithvi Perepa is a Lecturer in Autism Studies. He was trained as a teacher and started his career working in a centre for children with autism. Over the years, he has worked with people with autism in different roles and settings, from children’s services and schools to adult services.

Tom Billington is Professor of Educational and Child Psychology in the School of Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. In both his research and in his professional practice, he remains committed to ethical means of working, to challenging all forms of social exclusion, discrimination and oppression associated with the processes of psychopathologization, and to supporting individual young people to achieve to the maximum of their potential.