Hugh Morgan
Hugh Morgan has worked in the ASD/LD field since 1975. His professional and academic background is in psychology; social work and originally LD nursing; and he also holds a Masters degree in Medical Science from Birmingham University.
After Health and Local Authority work in Wales and Somerset, latterly as an officer in charge of several residential and day services for people with LD and ASD, Hugh became the founder employee and CEO of Autism west midlands in 1987. His left this charity after 14 years having built up the charity to over 300 staff working on various family, residential, day, outreach, school, training and information, services.
In May 2001, at the request for of The Shirley Foundation, he set-up Autism Cymru, Wales own national charity for Autism. Although only a small national charity with few staff, it has offices in North, South and West Wales, and the charity has achieved extraordinary strategic success in terms of influencing government policy, and is leading a partnership to establish the Wales Autism Research Centre and a Wales Chair in ASD in Cardiff University. Autism Cymru is one of the recommended charities in the recent and major independent report on the UK Autism sector published by NPC.
Hugh is author of Adults with Autism - A Guide to Theory and Practice published by Cambridge University Press which has now been printed in seven languages; and of several books on ASDs published by Sage Publications and also the Mental Health Foundation. He was co-founder and for 10 years Editor of the Good Autism Practice Journal (BILD Publications) and for 14years Associate Editor of the Journal of Autism (Sage/NAS). He is also the co-founder with Prof Rita Jordan of the web-based University Certificate of ASD Studies at Birmingham University and was the course Chair from 2000-2005. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Welsh Autism Communication Centre.
