Scottish Autism in partnership with the National Autistic Taskforce are delighted to showcase our new AutNav app, specifically created for autistic people.

The app has been developed in line with the vision of the late Dr Dinah Murray, who was passionate about supporting the rights of autistic people with profound communication difficulties, often supported in long-term residential care, and saw AutNav as a method to enable people to communicate their interests, and interact with friends and wider family.

AutNav is an app that brings together your favourite content, and keeps it all in one place. It was developed so that autistic people, including those in supported settings, could have more autonomy, and more easily use technology to pursue interests and keep in touch with friends and family. 

The app works by creating shortcuts to your chosen content, so that you have easy access to: 

• The music you want to listen to 
• The videos you want to see 
• The people you want to speak to
• The websites you want to visit 

AutNav is highly customisable, so you can modify it to suit your needs and preferences. It lets you organise your content in a way that makes sense to you, pick your favourite colour theme, and choose how much information you can see at once. You can also hide individual features depending on how you would like to interact with AutNav. 

AutNav is specifically designed to work with the accessibility features already available on a device. It supports both light and dark mode, and is compatible with a range of different text sizes. 

We have been able to support the development of the AutNav app following a generous legacy gift to Scottish Autism.