Category: Autism
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Competition Time
✨GIVEAWAY – CHANCE TO WIN!✨ Connected by Autism is the first online conference from Jessica Kingsley Publishers and will be held from 22nd – 27th of March 2021. The conference will be running over six days with presentations and conversations, to create an accessible conference space for learning, understanding and celebration. With each day based…
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EHCP – The Golden Ticket?
Five years ago, I was told by my daughter’s school, that I would never get her an EHCP. I was fed false information that it was nevery going to happen because my local authority (LA) rarely ever issue them and it was unlikely she would meet the high threshold. I ploughed on regardless because her…
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Broken hopes and shattered dreams
Right now, I can’t see any of the positives that the education system has brought to my family. The system, with it’s dictatorial regime, has little patience in it for an overtly sensitive and inquisitive child. As a parent I passed over my trust and it was to be my biggest mistake. I lost control…
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Pretty Darn Awesome: Book Review
Last year, a wonderful new children’s book, was added to the growing collection of PDA resources. This month I was passed a copy to see what I thought about it and I can’t begin to say how charming and sweet this story is. The book is titled Pretty Darn Awesome: Divergent not Deficient and is…
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Autism, Bullying and Me: Book Review
With the shocking news this week involving the murder of a vulnerable, autistic teenager, there seems no better time to share a resource that can empower our young people. Autism, Bullying and Me by Emily Lovegrove is a wonderfully written and useful guide for teenagers, to help them develop understanding and gain tools to cope…
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The Ice-Cream Sundae Guide to Autism
I really love doing a book review when it’s a task that I can get my daughter involved in – this particular resource she enjoyed reading and managed to finish in just one go! The book we looked at together is titled The Ice-Cream Sundae Guide to Autism and is written by Debby Elley and…
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Dreams can come true
Last year I wrote about an experience we had when an educational psychologist and an autism advisory teacher came to our home to do a joint assessment. The post was aptly titled I want to bring my pet to school and here is a quick link to the full details. To sum up the post…
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The Next Chapter
This weekend I finally had news that has been a catalyst to move us on to the next chapter of our story. But before I explain about that, I kind of need to take you back to what has happened so far along our journey, particularly as we have so many new followers that have…
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Super Shamlal – Book Review
I wanted to write about a fantastic new children’s resource that has been added to the growing collection of books on Neurodiversity by leading editors Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Super Shamlal is a new book by K.I. Al-Ghani – the very successful author behind the visionary books The Panicosaurus and The Red Beast (if you haven’t already looked…
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The Truce
Dear Local Authority, I am writing this letter with the warmest intentions, not to alarm or to shock you, but to offer my sincerest offerings of peace in order for us to move away from being in no man’s land. You see, I wonder if there could ever be a future when you work with…