Jason Arday’s family say ‘public cruelty’ he faced ‘was too much to bear’

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Professor of Sociology of Education at University of Cambridge Jason Arday. See SWNS story SWLNprof. An Autistic man who could not read or write until he was 18 has become Cambridge University's youngest-ever Black professor. Professor Arday, 37, has spoken out over his struggle with Autism and learning delays that left him speechless till he was age 11. He has now taken up one of the most prestigious professorship posts in one of the world's leading top universities and is the youngest Black person to do it. He joins just five other Black professors in the institution and will become one of just 155 Black university professors in the UK, out of a total of 23,000.
Tributes have been paid to Jason Arday at a vigil (Picture: University of Cambridge FacultySWNS)

Jason Arday’s family have spoken out at a London vigil honouring the former Read Entire Article