Dr. Rebecca Wood is a former teacher and autism education practitioner who is a Senior Lecturer in Special Education at the University of East London. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Autistic School Staff Project. Rebecca completed her Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham with a full-time scholarship, where she was also Project Manager of the Transform Autism Education project, funded by the European Commission. This was followed by an ESRC postdoctoral Fellowship at the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre of King’s College London. Rebecca speaks at national and international conferences and has a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. Rebecca’s principal interests are in valuing and supporting multi-modal forms of communication in the context of autism and in promoting strengths-based approaches in schools. Her work also shows that educational inclusion can only be achieved by supporting acceptance and diversity across the whole school community, for adults as well as children. Books: Wood, R., Crane, L., Happé, F., Morrison, A. and Moyse, R. (eds) (2022) Learning from Autistic Teachers: How to be a Neurodiversity-Inclusive School. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Wood, R. (2019) Inclusive Education for Autistic Children: Helping Children and Young People to Learn and Flourish in the Classroom. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.