Background:

Paul Murphy says,
"This idea grew out of my experience working as a teacher/artist within the autistic community which had a profound impact upon me."

• As a musician it enhanced my understanding of the power of music making in stimulating communication.
  
  
• As a talker it made me reassess how I use language to communicate.
  
  
• As a drama teacher it taught me new ways of working.
  
  
• As a theologian it made me ponder the connection between traffic lights and totem poles as signals of the numinous.
  
  
• As a film maker it made me wonder how the complexities of autism might be portrayed in a way that engaged and enlightened without being didactic or stigmatising.
  
  
• As a parent it made me more empathetic towards parents of autistic children
  
  
• As a male it made me question the connection between multi-tasking, tunnel vision and autism.
  
  
• As an educator it inspired me to explore how advances in communication technology could facilitate autistic students.
  
  
• As an artist it convinced me of the inclusive potential of creativity in moving autism out of the margins.
  
  
• As a human being it made me want to build bridges and thatís why I have developed The Boy Who Loved Trains.

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