The cartoons were designed by Ian Wilson to help staff (who were very often untrained, had only basic education and English as a second language) to understand autistic behaviour.

“They often had good behaviour management skills but instinctive ones. Theory is useful for helping to predict outcomes and the graphic presentation together with a verbal question and answer session was meant to help them understand sensory issues. For example, if you do this, that will happen and this is the reason. They are based on actual incidents and if you work in this area they are unfortunately quite frequent.”

We hope this guide is helpful to understand more about the different causes of behaviours of autistic individuals.