• E-mail: newsonautism247@gmail.com
Autism News
  • Home
  • Categories
    • Contributions
    • Features
    • Inspirational
    • International
    • Leisure
    • News
    • NGOs
    • Research
    • Technology
    • Employment
    • Education
  • About Autism
    • What is autism
    • Symptoms
    • Diagnosis
    • Treatment
    • Prevalence
    • Myths
  • Merchandise
  • About Us
  • Get in Touch
  • Government Schemes
    • National Trust
      • National Trust
      • Disha
      • Vikaas
      • Samarth
      • Gharaunda
      • Niramaya
      • Sahyogi
      • Prerna
      • Sambhav
      • Badhte Kadam
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Categories
    • Contributions
    • Features
    • Inspirational
    • International
    • Leisure
    • News
    • NGOs
    • Research
    • Technology
    • Employment
    • Education
  • About Autism
    • What is autism
    • Symptoms
    • Diagnosis
    • Treatment
    • Prevalence
    • Myths
  • Merchandise
  • About Us
  • Get in Touch
  • Government Schemes
    • National Trust
      • National Trust
      • Disha
      • Vikaas
      • Samarth
      • Gharaunda
      • Niramaya
      • Sahyogi
      • Prerna
      • Sambhav
      • Badhte Kadam
No Result
View All Result
Autism News
No Result
View All Result

Elle McNicoll: The author who’s undoing the lack of neurodiverse representation in children’s literature

Spectrum Reporter by Spectrum Reporter
July 8, 2021
in Leisure
0
UK Devises A Five Year National Strategy For Improving Lives Of Autistic People
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

An 11-year-old girl likens her experiences of living with autism to those faced by the women killed during the witch trials a few centuries ago in the Scottish village she lives in. This is the crux of the book “A Kind of Spark” that helped its author Elle McNicoll bag this year’s Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for her debut novel.

Being an autistic person herself, Elle McNicoll always found the lack of neurodiverse characters in literature, especially children’s books, frustrating. She even wrote her Masters’ dissertation on the lack of inclusivity and representation of neurodiverse children. Finally, she decided to take matters into her own hands and started writing the kind of books she would have liked to read growing up.

Her first book that was published in 2020, ended up being selected as Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Year, Waterstones Children’s Book of the Month for October, and the Times and Sunday Times Book of the Week.

McNicoll recently released her second novel, again with a protagonist with autism. This one is a sci-fi thriller that sees 12-year-old Cora battling holograms of dead people created with the help of artificial intelligence by the in-universe tech giant Pomegranate Technologies with a sinister purpose. In this dangerous mission, she gets help from her friend Adrien who has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 

Tags: AUTISMautisticElle McNicollinclusivityneurodiverse
Previous Post

State-of-the-art Autism Centre and Sensory Park inaugurated in Latur

Next Post

Sleep issues in early childhood lead to behavioral issues later in children with autism

Spectrum Reporter

Spectrum Reporter

Next Post
UK Devises A Five Year National Strategy For Improving Lives Of Autistic People

Sleep issues in early childhood lead to behavioral issues later in children with autism

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recent News

When lockdown hobby became a supplementary source of income

When lockdown hobby became a supplementary source of income

April 4, 2022
Autistic boys and girls – diagnostic differences between them

Autistic boys and girls – diagnostic differences between them

March 21, 2022
British County Council fails to provide for an autistic teenager, agrees to pay £3.6k in compensation

British County Council fails to provide for an autistic teenager, agrees to pay £3.6k in compensation

March 16, 2022
Neighbours locked up an autistic boy and his family in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad

Neighbours locked up an autistic boy and his family in Indirapuram, Ghaziabad

March 2, 2022
Reality TV star Demi Burnett from Bachelor in Paradise shares her autism diagnosis

Reality TV star Demi Burnett from Bachelor in Paradise shares her autism diagnosis

February 26, 2022
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
News around the world on Autism that decodes the spectrum

© 2022 News on Autism - A News and Educational Website on Autism.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Categories
    • Contributions
    • Features
    • Inspirational
    • International
    • Leisure
    • News
    • NGOs
    • Research
    • Technology
    • Employment
    • Education
  • About Autism
    • What is autism
    • Symptoms
    • Diagnosis
    • Treatment
    • Prevalence
    • Myths
  • Merchandise
  • About Us
  • Get in Touch
  • Government Schemes
    • National Trust
      • National Trust
      • Disha
      • Vikaas
      • Samarth
      • Gharaunda
      • Niramaya
      • Sahyogi
      • Prerna
      • Sambhav
      • Badhte Kadam

© 2022 News on Autism - A News and Educational Website on Autism.

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In