Category: autistic spaces
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Announcement: Joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education
I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education as an individual mentor. GROVE provides online Autistic-led mentoring, groups and programmes for young people in the UK. Very excited to be a part of this wonderful organisation! You can find out more about GROVE on their page. 🙂 And below is the cool…
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In-Service Days Training
With some schools in Scotland reopening this week, I was fortunate to be asked to deliver some staff training during their in-service days at the beginning of the week. It has been an invigorating start to the new term! On Monday, I ran a session on Autistic people’s sensory experiences to the teaching staff at…
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Podcast with Neurodiversity Natter on ‘Creating Safe Spaces’
The podcast episode myself and Laura Hellfeld recorded with Neurodiversity Natter is now available! We are very grateful for them inviting us on to discuss our book, Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People. You can listen to this episode via the various options listed in the link below. https://linktr.ee/neurodiversity_natter?trk=public_post_comment-text ID: Dark blue background featuring small…
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Over 200 Copies Sold! ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People’
We are delighted to have sold over 200 copies of our ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic people’ book within 3 weeks of publishing. Huge thank you again to everyone who has read it and sent us feedback or reviews. It means so much to me and Laura that this is resonating and hopefully it will…
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The Dangers of Pejorative Language
There remains a pervasive and deeply worrying use of pejorative language in society when discussing Autistic people. Of course, this has originated from the early observations of Autistic people almost a century ago, where clinicians made observations of young children displaying distress and judged how they measured against non-autistic people. Despite how much time has…
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Minding Autistic Minds Conference 2024
What an amazing few days in Ireland this week at the Minding Autistic Minds conference (run by AUsome Training) sharing space with wonderful people. It was full of extraordinary practice (and life) changing presentations and workshops. Everyone who supports Autistic people needs to attend events like this. It was so validating to experience on a…