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How to use restorative justice to support autistic children

Woodbridge Trust’s Specialist SEND Teacher, Rachel Berry, and Director of External Partnerships, Cate Marsden, explore how the principles of restorative justice help autistic children develop key relationship skills.

Masking

A strategy used by some autistic people to appear non-autistic. This can have a devastating impact on mental health, sense of self and access to an autism diagnosis.

Demand avoidance

Resistance to demands is a characteristic experienced by and observed in some autistic people. It is sometimes labelled as Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), but there is debate about the evidence for and usefulness of this label.

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.

Emotion Works – A tool to support autistic individuals to recognise and understand their emotions

Emotion Works – A tool to support autistic individuals to recognise and understand their emotions

Interoception and mental wellbeing in autistic people

Dr Emma Goodall discusses how interoception affects mental wellbeing in autistic people

Eating disorder or disordered eating? Eating patterns in autism

Dr Elizabeth Shea describes some of the differences between avoidant eating and anorexia nervosa
Advice & Support

Autism and anger management - a guide for parents and carers

This guide gives some practical ways in which you can help, including preventing and managing anger and helping your child to manage their feelings.

Anxiety in autistic people

Dr Jacqui Rodgers explores why autistic people may experience anxiety

The Magic of Potential: Helpless? Or Autistic and ADHD?

Joely Williams, My Autistic Wings Autism Advocate, writes here about the magic of potential.
Advice & Support

Smearing - a guide for all audiences

Our advice and guidance gives some reasons an autistic person might smear their faeces, and strategies to address this.

Reducing anxiety in autistic children and young people

A study exploring the effectiveness of parental training as a method of support in reducing anxiety in autistic children
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