Adrian Whyatt's Website

Hi, here is my personal website, just a simple one. You can set up your own as well if you want to. You can contact me by email on adrianwhyatt2@gmail.com.

something about me

Access and address Statement and information on some current and past positions held and other activities:

Your cooperation is much appreciated in advance in meeting my access needs and preferences. Please do what you reasonably can in the time available to you:

Documents in sans serif font (such as arial) minimum size 14, though ideally 18 middling brown type on a light yellow background or failing that on a background similar to this. Likewise all other documents on a similar light yellow background or failing that on a light blue background, if at all possible, and failing that on a grey background similar to this one (purple type on grey background). As far as other access needs and preferences are concerned, please do your best to do the following:

1. A lumbar spine chair with a neck rest and an angled (45 degrees) and swivelling footrest, if at all possible. Failing that, three or four small cushions for my back and neck and one for my feet. The chair should be suitable for someone about 5 foot 6 inches in height and of small to medium build.  This should be situated in the front row opposite the speaker's dias.

2. Vegan with fish food with rice or wheat or failing that soya milk for teas and coffees. There also needs to be decaffeinated tea and coffee and cold drinks.

3. Lighting that is relatively subdued.

4. The provision of as much as possible of the materials in advance by email, preferably with a hard copy as well, both in Easy Words and Pictures and in standard formats.

5. Understanding that my communication style may be different from yours, as well as such things as body language, tone of voice etc. I do not intend to be “rude”.

6. Understanding that I have irritable bowel syndrome and so may suddenly have to leave the event for a while or may arrive late because of it. Please help me to fill in any gaps.

7. Presentations of slides and overheads should be in a scotopic-sensitivity and dyslexia friendly universal design format, if at all possible, largely as above:

7.1. Sans Serif Fonts.

7.2. 75% grey font.

7.3. Light blue background.

For a good example of the above, see the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Disability Employment in the Workplace available for free from the TUC in hard copy or as a downloadable file from their website.

If this is not possible, then I would ask to have a printout of the presentations, preferably in advance in a format friendly to my needs as described above.

Yours sincerely and with thanks for your time and cooperation

Adrian Whyatt, 5, Park House, 13 Girdlers Road, London W14 0PS.Tel: 020-7-603-9710. Mobile: 07930-680865 (texts but no voicemail). Personal Email: adrianwhyatt2@gmail.com. Web: http://www.myspace.com/adrianwhyatt. Skype: adrian.dean.whyatt; adriandeanwhyatt;adrianwhyatt

Activities and positions include:

Chair, Neurodiversity International; Co-Chair, Autistic Rights Movement UK a National Autistic Society (NAS) National Councillor.

As well as Co-Chair, "Including Everyone" (IE), an unincorporated voluntary association and its affiliated Unincorporated Voluntary Associations (UVA) s: The Equality Rights Movement (ERM); The Diversity Movement (DM); Full Employment Now (FEM); Decent Wages Now, (DWN). The Universal Access Standards Organisation (UASO); The Disabled People’s Movement (DPM); The Disability Access Standards Organisation (DASO); The Neurodiverse Rights Movement (NRM); The Autistic Rights Movement (ARM); The Survivors Movement (SM), (which covers all aspects of “survivorship” for survivors of all types of distress, poor treatment and abuse, whether physical, mental, sexual, spiritual or of any other type); The Democratic Rights Movement (DRM).

I am also a member of the NAS (formerly UK Government Department of Health) Autism External Reference Group, the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Managing Autism in Adulthood Stakeholder Reference Group; as well as of the British Standards Institution (BSI) Neurodiversity, Cognitive Impairment and Access to the Built Environment Task Force (set up to help revise British Standard BS8300), and the BSi Disability External Reference Group (DERG).

Outside of the disability field, I am a member of the Parish Council of the English Orthodox Parish of St. Michael, Guildford, which is a member parish of the True Orthodox Church of Greece under Archbishop Chrysostom Kousis.