Autism CRC

turnKeyRM has been named a finalist in the Not-for-Profit: Community category at the iAwards Queensland, Australia's longest running and most prestigious technology innovation awards, recognising solutions that deliver meaningful impact across industry and community.

Originally developed to meet the operational and governance needs of Autism CRC, turnKeyRM was designed to handle the complexity of large-scale, collaborative research programs.

Over the past 10 years, it has evolved from an internal platform into a mature, sector-wide solution, now supporting 23 Cooperative Research Centres.

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turnKeyRM named finalist in prestigious iAwards Queensland turnKeyRM has been named a finalist in the Not-for-Profit: Community category at the iAwards Queensland.

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Curtin University (Perth) are running a four-day 'GEN AI' bootcamp over the school holidays to empower autistic young people aged 13-18 years to learn and use Generative AI.

Learn foundational and industry-relevant uses, applications and ethics of Generative AI, with hands-on projects and integrated wellbeing activities.

📆 6-9 July 2026
⏰ 9:30am - 3:00pm (each day)
📍Geraldton Senior High School

Sessions include:
✅ Introduction to AI
✅ Interacting with Gen AI
✅ Blocky/Python coding with AI
✅ Making & designing an AI assistant

Applications close 1 July 2026!

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Looking to strengthen or expand your knowledge and skills in autism identification, assessment, and diagnosis across the lifespan?

Enrolments are now open for the July–September and October–December 2026 teaching periods of the online self-paced Autism Diagnosis Microcredential Courses, developed by Autism CRC with The University of Western Australia.

These flexible, online, self-paced courses continue to support clinicians and professionals across health, education, and community settings in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide.
• Flexible online learning across four teaching periods each year
• Comprehensive, affirming, evidence-informed content
• Interactive eLearning modules and extensive resources
• Professional development points, Certificate of Achievement, and UWA Plus transcript upon completion

Suitable for:
• GPs, Paediatricians, Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and allied health professionals
• Teachers, Counsellors, Nurses, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Early Childhood Educators, and others supporting autistic people across the lifespan

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https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/uwa-plus

There is still time before End of Financial Year to enrol in the SACG short course.

Ideal for practitioners interested in implementing a best-practice, evidence-based approach within their clinical setting.

Build your understanding of:
• guiding principles
• goal setting
• selecting and planning supports
• delivering supports
• outcomes, quality and safeguarding.

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For practitioners: eLearning and resources | Supporting Autistic Children Guideline We have partnered with universities and professional organisations to deliver learning opportunities and resources to help practitioners implement the Supporting Autistic Children Guideline.

There is still time before End of Financial Year to enrol in the ADAG short course.

Ideal for practitioners interested in implementing the Guideline into practice.

Explore Guideline Recommendations, community insights and Good Practice Points.

Course features:
• practical tools
• downloadable resources
• practitioner insight videos
• hypothetical case studies
• self-paced content
• 4 hour duration

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eLearning and resources | Assessment and Diagnosis Guideline For practitioners: eLearning and resources. This page contains information relating to the short online course, microcredentials, Graduate Certificate of Autism Diagnosis and Resource library.

Looking to strengthen or expand your knowledge and skills in autism identification, assessment, and diagnosis across the lifespan?

Enrolments are now open for the July–September and October–December 2026 teaching periods of the online self-paced Autism Diagnosis Microcredential Courses, developed by Autism CRC with The University of Western Australia.

These flexible, online, self-paced courses continue to support clinicians and professionals across health, education, and community settings in Australia, New Zealand and worldwide.

• Flexible online learning across four teaching periods each year
• Comprehensive, affirming, evidence-informed content
• Interactive eLearning modules and extensive resources
• Professional development points, Certificate of Achievement, and UWA Plus transcript upon completion

Suitable for:
• GPs, Paediatricians, Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and allied health professionals
• Teachers, Counsellors, Nurses, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Early Childhood Educators, and others supporting autistic people across the lifespan

Find course information and enrolment links below 👇
https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/uwa-plus

New resources are now available to support the Participatory and Inclusive Autism Research Practice Guides.

• Easy-Read: Information about participatory research
• Poster: Participatory research process
• Webinar: Inclusive community engagement in research and policy

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Supporting resources | Research Practice Guides This page contains a Poster and Easy Read with information about participatory research. A webinar recording and podcast episode are also available to watch or listen to.

New resources are now available to support the Participatory and Inclusive Research Practice Guides.

The guides provide an overview of key participatory research principles, concepts and practices, followed by six focused guides addressing both participatory and inclusive research:

• Consulting with autistic people in research
• Co-producing research with autistic people
• Supporting autistic people to produce community-led research
• Involving autistic people as research participants
• Disseminating research findings
• Evaluation research process and impact

Register for free to access the Guides on the Autism CRC Best Practice Portal.

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Participatory and Inclusive Autism Research Practice Guides | Research Practice Guides Participatory and Inclusive Autism Research Practice Guides provide researchers with the tools to ensure end-user driven autism research delivers practical outcomes and resources that benefit the community. These guides outline the benefits of participatory research and provide guidance to enhance t...

Thursday 2 April is World Autism Day. We join families and communities worldwide in recognising the dignity of all autistic people and advocate for inclusive environments.

In Australia, school leaders understand that to achieve an inclusive school culture, clear communication, respect, openness, fairness, and accountability are required.

inclusionED has developed several teaching practices that take a whole-of-school approach to developing and maintaining an inclusive culture that will benefit your entire school community.

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Whole-of-school strategies | inclusionED School leaders understand that an inclusive school culture requires clear communication, respect, openness, fairness, and accountability. These strategies support a whole-school approach to developing and maintaining an inclusive culture that will benefit your entire school community.

Help shape the future of inclusive education for autistic students!

We’ve heard from nearly 800 autistic people and people who support autistic students – thank you! We’ve also reviewed 500 research papers. Together, this information has been used to develop the draft National Guidance for best practice in inclusive education for autistic students (National Guidance).

We now invite your feedback on this document.

The National Guidance applies to autistic students in mainstream pre-schools, kindergartens, and schools. So, if you’re a teacher, school leader, parent, allied health professional, autistic adult with experience in Australian education, we want to hear from you! We also invite organisations that support autistic people or inclusive education to provide feedback.

✅ Complete a short anonymous survey (20-30 minutes)

🧠 Share your insights to help shape national practice.

Take part or learn more 👇
https://www.autismcrc.com.au/inclusive-ed-guidance

This consultation is part of a project funded by Autism CRC and led by researchers at QUT (Queensland University of Technology) , Griffith University, and La Trobe University.

Community consultation open for Draft National Guidance Have your say. A draft of the National Guidance for best practice in inclusive education for autistic students is now available for community feedback. Consultation closes Sunday 15 March at 11:59pm AEST (QLD time).