My son was diagnosed with PDA just over a year ago at 18. He was previously diagnosed with Autism age 2, but there was always a big question mark as he was very sociable from being a baby. When he was ...
I am very keen on the idea of a designated adult for autism within mainstream schools. I have done my opwn small scale research on this for me Masters Dissertation. The response of having an autism specific ...
I am interested in the details below. My son might or might not have ASD - he certainly has other issues. Please contact me for futher details. SEN: Participants sought for ASD survey Autism researchers ...
Hi - Obviously, this is a very complex issue but a multi-sensory approach is widely promoted by many autism experts, practitioners and teachers. We have other articles on the site more specifically about ...
Can you please help me understand autism. Do autistic pupils require multisensory approach? Also, is it a good idea to mix ASD pupils with SLD pupils as a teaching class? ...
... melt down ,I have been told he is borderline autistic which I think now is more dyspraxia not autism.How can you tell the difference.kerr y claridge ...
... m school both academically and emotionally etc. Whether you believe that children with autism generally tend to have more long-term success socially and academically in special or mainstream schools? I wou ...
My autistic son languished on school action plus for years. Unfortuntely the school did not recognise autism even though we kept raising our concerns about his development and learning. Eventually we obtained ...
Julie children with autism have a RIGHT to expect a fase free appropriate school education. Plus home education has TWO major disadvantages. So called normal children won't be taught about kids with disabilities ...
Do you mean points 2. & 3. under Social Communication, Morgana: I think what they mean is that this is how the behaviour is perceived/viewe d generally by the NT child/society, not that this is the intention ...
I agree with Olive in a sense that there are so many unfairly malecentric accounts of autism on the net, it's a shame that a female one should be so dogged by the negative and not the positive. Also, no ...
@Olive As this is an article about "Are parents and professionals missing the signs of autism in girls? Kate Reynolds looks at why female autism is often diagnosed late and misunderstood" of course the ...
You may find the 5 minute film on our website useful. It was made by our autistic students to raise awareness of autism in girls. www.limpsfield-grange.surrey.sch.uk ...
My daughter was dignosed with clasic autism back in 1986. , when she was 3years old at the Donald winicott centre , it took just 3 days for a doctor to give us this dignosed . I have read all with great ...
I have Asperger's and am mother to two girls one with Asperger's and one with high functioning autism. It's high time clinicians realised the differences and more studies were done on females. If they w ...
YES! I'm HFA, and once I overheard a school resource worker say, "It looks like autism, but she's a girl!" I often wonder if things had been different somehow if I'd known I wasn't crazy, just wired differe ...
Anna,that was very well put in the limited time you had with him. He still clearly doesnt understand what it is like to live with Autism and how it affects the whole family. We are in constant battles ...
