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Here you'll find a selection of articles and opinion pieces written by professionals and autistic people who share their knowledge, good practice, research and advice for anyone working with autistic people. New articles will be published each month.

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The power of a good home and school partnership

Alison Eason, head of the Additionally Resourced Provision (ARP) at Chalgrove Primary School and winner of the Nasen Changemaker of the Year award, explores how schools can work closely with families to support autistic students. 

Planning and creating a Design and Technology workshop suitable for autistic students

Ness McBurney, Subject Lead for Design and Technology (DT) at Clare Mount Specialist Sports College, discusses the changes the school made to its provision.

Introducing an adapted music method for autistic learners

Ivan Cammarata, Continuous Improvement Lead for the South of England at the National Autistic Society, explains how he taught autistic participants to read and play music using colours and shapes.

Phoebe, a higher level teaching assistant, shares how an active sensory room can make sensory interventions more effective

Phoebe, a higher level teaching assistant, shares how an active sensory room can make sensory interventions more effective

The PEACE Pathway: Understanding the overlap between eating disorders and autism in young people.

PEACE works together with autistic or suspected autistic young people who have an eating disorder, their families and clinicians to improve understanding and promote inclusive care and treatment for eating disorders.

Laura - Me and Neurodiversity

Laura, an employee of Aspire, a not-for-profit company in Salford, shares her diagnosis journey, the challenges and barriers she has faced and her dreams and aspirations for the future.

Neurodiversity: A guide and resource directory for university careers advisers

The UK government has recently issued the Buckland Review of Autism Employment, which draws attention to the large employment gap for autistic people.

Breaking Barriers: ending seclusion in a high-risk clinical situation

A Consultant Psychiatrist in CAMHS shares an account, reflecting over a 2year period, of how a secure hospital inpatient service empowered a very mentally unwell young adolescent autistic male, and the staff looking after them, to fracture the shackles set through the use of seclusion.

Autism and catastrophising

What catastrophising is, why autistic people may be prone to it and support options

Toileting and autistic children

Lorraine MacAlister discusses toileting difficulties in autistic children

Research into the life expectancy of autistic people in the UK

The National Autistic Society supported researchers from University College London in undertaking new research. It explicitly aimed to estimate the average life expectancy of autistic people living in the UK using the method adopted by the Office for National Statistics.

A collaborative approach to developing communication: A case study

Vicky Bland at Oaklands School, discusses the way that school, parents and speech and language therapists have worked together to utilise and develop communication strategies and the impact that this has had.
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