Working With School For Your Autistic Child

Working With School For Your Autistic Child

It’s a common scenario. You have a child who has been diagnosed as on the autistic spectrum and you want their school to provide additional support. Obtaining this support can be an incredibly frustrating process. Schools, facing increasing budget cuts, can...
Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

Five Tips For Spoonie Parents

  A spoonie is someone who is living with a chronic illness. It refers to the idea that such a person has a limited number of spoons (as an analogy for energy) to use each day. I’m a spoonie because I’m autistic and also have chronic fatigue...
Choosing A Secondary School For Your Autistic Child

Choosing A Secondary School For Your Autistic Child

Today I’m going to write about choosing a secondary school for your autistic child. Super Kid is in his final year of primary school. He will start secondary school in September 2018 and as an autistic child choosing the right school for him is especially...
Autism – Preparing For The Summer

Autism – Preparing For The Summer

Summer is here! The purple children break up from school tomorrow and we have a fun summer planned, so I’m super excited. In the past at this point in the year I’ve felt really anxious. Loss of routine and a stretch of unscheduled time can be really scary...
Ask The Kids

Ask The Kids

Regular readers may have noticed that I’ve got a You Tube channel here. It’s a fairly new thing for me, and I’d been looking for something fun to do on my channel. I accidentally stumbled across the idea for Ask The Kids when we did a product review...