Saturday, 25 May 2019

Panorama & Beyond: Treatment of Vulnerable People in Care Homes & ATUs.

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In the UK, the BBC Panorama team investigated a secure care setting.  In it, various autistic people, and people with learning disabi...
Monday, 13 May 2019

Autistic People. So, new Research. Different social skills, not broken ones.

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For decades, autistic people have been told that our way of socialising and co-operating is a broken version of the 'real thing...
Sunday, 5 May 2019

Primary School Age Child - Might They Be Autistic?

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Some professionals and parents have been given autism 'checklists' that are 20 years out of date. Not at all useful when trying ...
Friday, 19 April 2019

Autistic children - Are we helping them after trauma? PTSD. cPTSD.

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"Currently, there is no evidence based practice for the treatment of trauma [for autistic individuals]". Those are words from...
Monday, 1 April 2019

Autism, Age, Wisdom

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In an online poll this week, autistic people were asked whether others mistook their age.  Perhaps thinking they were older than they act...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Autism Acceptance, not Tragedy

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April is a time of Autism Acceptance. That doesn't sound too controversial, does it.  But, it is. There's people who say to me, ...
Wednesday, 20 March 2019

Autism: The Perils of Some Online Training

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Not much time?  A problem to trek to a distant training course?  It becomes tempting to look for online training. Training on autism...