Wristband sensors can monitor tiny physiological signs and alert support workers and clinicians to an individual’s growing anxiety

It’s my ambition to build, in Merseyside, the world’s first assessment centre where biometric technology is used to help people with autism.

Trials of the technology – the first of their kind in this country and the first in a residential care setting anywhere – will start this spring at Autism Together’s Raby Hall care home in Wirral. A £2.5m public appeal to raise funds for the project, and the planned high-tech building that will house this technology, will launch at the same time.

My passion for this project is based on 26 years’ experience of working with people with severe autism, starting as a house parent at a residential school. I’ve learned that aggressive or challenging behaviour is always a form of communication, often indicating stress and anxiety.

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