Focus groups

This folder contains summaries and quotations from three focus group sessions held with autistic people, the relatives and carers of autistic people, researchers and developers, about the Autistica/Turing citizen science project in Autumn 2019.

Contents of focus-groups folder

• Creation of focus group summary documents
• Focus Group Summaries:
  • 18 September 2019
  • 24 September 2019
  • 4 October 2019

Key

The key below shows how the comments in the summaries have been labelled. They were co-designed with an autistic collaborator and are based on earlier informal scoping work with Autistica’s Insight Group. More detail can be found in creation-summary-documents.md file which describes in detail how the summary documents were developed in collaboration with focus group participants and autistic collaborators.

Where From

• A = Autistica
• T = Turing
• F = Fujitsu

Specialist Role on Project

• R = Researcher

Connection to Autism

• A = Autistic
• P = Parent of someone autistic

Connection to Experience

• d = direct: experience, suggestion, or opinion of speaker
• i = indirect: witnessed or reported on behalf of someone else by speaker
• g = general comment