Tag: autistic experience
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Minding Autistic Minds Conference 2025
What an amazing experience last week at the Minding Autistic Minds conference. It was great to present 4 workshops over the 2 days and spend time with so many wonderful people. Such a welcoming, emotional and healing neuro-affirming space to be in. Very privileged to have been a part of it. You can purchase the…
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A week of In-Service Day Training
It has certainly been an eventful week of training! On Monday in West Lothian to deliver a session to the teachers at Kirknewton Primary School on ways of supporting Autistic people in school. On Wednesday I had two sessions during Glasgow City Council’s in-service day. I started the morning with a training session on creating…
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Webinar: Creating Safe Spaces with AUsome Training
I am looking forward to delivering this webinar for AUsome Training in January with Laura Hellfeld on Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic people. This session is based on the book we published earlier this year. More details on the webinar and how to sign up are at the link below. https://ausometraining.com/product/creating-safe-spaces-for-autistic-people-2/ Alt text: “Wednesday 22nd…
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Training I delivered in 2024
It’s been a great year of delivering training to so many fantastic groups and organisations. I feel so grateful for all of these opportunities! These are some of the groups I delivered sessions to this year (couldn’t fit all of them into the graphic!). If you are interested in my training sessions, feel free to…
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Auticast Podcast Episode
Last week I recorded an episode of the Auticast. It was a fun time discussing changes and life transitions for Autistic people. Thank you to Jack for inviting me on the podcast. 🙂 You can listen to the episode via the links below. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/season-3-episode-5-the-challenges-of-change/id1726622137?i=1000678196690
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Release Day – Gabby’s Glimmers!
I am excited to share that Gabby’s Glimmers, a children’s picture book about a young Autistic person and their relationship with food, is now available! This has been such a wonderful book to develop with Alice, Laura and Abby. 🙂 Link below if you would like to purchase this book (eBook option coming soon). https://amzn.eu/d/8LuyuKQ
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Podcast Episode with The Unfinished Idea
Recently I was invited by Greer, host of The Unfinished Idea podcast, to chat about creating safe spaces for Autistic and otherwise Neurodivergent people. The topic on safe spaces is based on the book I co-authored with Laura Hellfeld (see here). We are delighted this resource is resonating with so many people and it was…
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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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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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