Who We Are

Dinah Murray

Dinah Murray PhD is a person-centred planning consultant, specialising in the use of IT for people with Autism Spectrum Differences and other learning disabilities. She has been assessed as autistic (Asperger type) by a qualified psychologist. She is co-author with Ann Aspinall of Getting IT: Using information technology to empower people with communication difficulties, and she edited and contributed to Coming Out Asperger – Diagnosis, Disclosure and Self-Confidence (both JKP).

Dinah has thousands of hours of experience working and communicating with autistic adults of all apparent levels of ability. She tutors and has written course material for both Birmingham University’s Continuing Professional Development courses in Autism, recently updating the unit on IT. She has been consultant to the Reactive Colours project at the University of Cardiff. She has lectured and published extensively, including Attention, Monotropism and the Diagnostic Criteria for Autism, Murray, Lesser & Lawson, Autism, May 2005.

Dinah cofounded Autism & Computing in 1995, making an Arts Council funded free video. Via its website (www.autismandcomputing.org.uk) it has campaigned since 1998 for recognising autistic people as part of natural human diversity. In 2006 she started the Posautive Youtube groups, with hundreds of videos portraying positive images of autistic potential. In 2008 she launched www.autreach.it and curated the video Something About Us.

Selina Postgate

Selina Postgate MSc is a Bristol-based autistic rights activist, peer advocate and volunteer community development worker who was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 2007, aged 52.

Single mother of two now-adult girls, she graduated at the age of 40 with a first in Environmental Science from the University of the West of England, following this with a Masters in Information Technology.

Selina has spent a lifetime perseverating on “what makes people tick”. She has considerable counselling, coaching and training experience and she holds an IDHP Diploma in Psychotherapy Group Facilitation and is a Master Practitioner and Certified Trainer of NLP. She is also a practicing artist.

Roger Turner

Roger Turner MBCS is a software developer who likes full-stack IT projects. He read Maths at Cambridge and then worked as an operating systems programmer on several pioneering online computer systems. After establishing his systems development business Memoria Technica he designed, developed, and supported for more than ten years an innovative CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) system, used by BT to conduct hundreds of thousands of Customer Satisfaction interviews. Other products developed by Memoria Technica used microprocessors for which all software had to be written “from scratch”, without the development environments that programmers now expect. Roger designed the statistical analysis software for the web application surveyanalysis.com (a service for Market Research agencies), and has operated that website since 1999.

Throughout his IT career, Roger feels that autistic strengths of focus, persistence, and rationality have served him well; his recent ASD (Autistic Spectrum Diagnosis) led to participation in a number of research projects. He gave a poster presentation on cognitive science and autism at Autscape 2007 (to which he cycled with a bike trailer of his own design), and lecture and workshop presentations at Autscape 2008.
Roger is the web developer for the Autreach Network site and AutreachIT.

Anya Ustaszewski

Anya Ustaszewski is an AutreachIT trustee, a member of the London Autistic Rights Movement, and on the executive committee of ASSERT Brighton and Hove, an organisation which provides support and information to people on the autistic spectrum and their relatives, partners and carers.