Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Useful New Autism Info for Care Settings

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  This is a list of useful research papers and Commissioned documents that have changed how we think about autistic people, and how we respo...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

Strengths-Based Approaches for Autistic Individuals

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  For many years, people assumed quality of life for autistic people only happened when we were 'normalised' from an early age.  Thi...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

What is autism? A modern understanding for 2021

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What is autism? We get asked this a lot. There's been quite a battle going on.  I will generalise: Group one ... fans of two men who tho...
Saturday, 25 September 2021

Autism is not a look or a behaviour. About enforcing 'Masking'.

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  In the press, news that a team have found a way to give fewer diagnoses to autistic children. "Autism therapy aimed at infants may re...
Thursday, 2 September 2021

Autistic people and phone calls

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  There's a lot of misunderstanding about autistic people, and phone calls. Many autistic people are not always able to speak, or may no...
Monday, 23 August 2021

The new ABA textbook, and why there are serious concerns

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For many years, funders and parents have been informed that there is only one approach that works, for autistic people.  Applied Behaviour A...
Saturday, 24 July 2021

Appropriate Descriptions around Autistic People

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  The photograph above shows a typical group of Autistic people. We're one sentence into this blog and I expect a number of people are a...