by Nanny Aut This is a challenging time for the autism/autistic community - when community is needed more than ever before - we are instead seeing division - not just autistics vs. autism parents but also across the lower support / higher support divide. I recently saw a facebook post by The Autism Dad asking … Continue reading Finding Common Ground →

Discussing AAC in its broadest terms and how it can support both non-speaking and speaking autistics.

Exploring the personal experience of processing mutism - when an overload of processing blocks speech

Image description : A broken porcelain doll's head lying discarded on straw - a quote is at the top - "One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build a person.”― Lovaas" … Continue reading ‘Autism Training’ – the harsh reality of what professionals are being taught →

Meeting with other autistics gives a sense of belonging we rarely are able to access in our day to day lives. This is an account of how Autscape changed my life for the better.

A review of the BBC documentary - Autism and Our Family

Not all autism research is bad - and we need good research. Why is research like Spectrum 10K bad and what does GOOD Autism reseach look like?