On February 4, 2019, Roy started the Autism Ambassador study programme from the Autism Embassy, with the aim of establishing an Autism Platform for students and employees within all Fontys universities of applied sciences. At Student+, Roy already fulfills the ambassador role with verve, which is why he was approached by the Autism Embassy for this official job. FH ICT hereby makes Roy's extensive knowledge and experience available to other universities of applied sciences.
The Autism Embassy is a project developed by Vanuit Autisme Bekeken (VAB). VAB is a program from the government for inclusiveness in all domains and areas of life. The approach is to see what impact autism can have on these areas of life and what support needs to be offered so that people with autism can contribute to society. Autism has been chosen as a perspective because the help people with autism need is often similar to people in other special circumstances.
The Ambassade gives employees within large organizations such as Shell and Achmea an ambassadorial role where they establish a platform for employees with autism to share experiences and support each other. Roy is going to establish this platform for Fontys University of Applied Sciences. At Fontys, we not only deal with employees with special circumstances, but also students. We also want to deal with this in an inclusive way. That's why Roy would like to spread information to everyone about what impact autism has and how to deal with it. So it will be a platform with an advisory role that provides Fontys as a whole with information that is also useful for daily educational practice.