Kids addicted to their iPads? Don't get me wrong, the tablets in our home are used for far more than just zoning out to repeated ep...

Loud noises, bright contrasts, sudden changes of direction and usually lots and lots of people. While being in an unfamiliar place, ope...

Jane's level of imagination is astonishing to me. Her pre-school teacher says she's the 'role play queen' at nursery. Hav...

He turns away from the sunlight. It's bright... it's soo white. His eyes crease, his nose crinkles and his big brown eyes become ...

Another term over, another term of the oddest looking artwork and shortest stories arrive at our house. I'm sure for many parents a...

That's right.  Until David was five years old, we didn't kiss on the mouth.  And now he's five and a half years old and we do...

It's nearly two months to the day since our beautiful Beagle, Smithy, passed away. He was past ten years old and had been having...

Cooking is a great way to develop listening and motor skills for all kids, not just those with autism.  Anthony made this Apple and Pear ...

It's not just the kids that people look at oddly because they have autism.  Never mind their peculiar behaviour, screaming collapses, ...

It's hard to explain a meltdown to someone who doesn't understand. Have you ever been so distraught that you can't functio...

It's not just the kids that people look at oddly because they have autism.  Never mind their peculiar behaviour, screaming collapses...

David has for a while now been using Makaton sign language with some speech sounds to communicate. We've been concerned that as well as ...

We can never really know how David is going to act when we go somewhere we've either never been before or not been to for a long time. L...

A quarter of people with autism are non-verbal. They don't talk at all and may use other methods of communication. Our eldest son Anthon...

This week's #WonderfulWednesday share is a quote from Stuart Duncan (founder of www.autcraft.com ) that I saw via  Stories About Autism...

This post has been featured on  The Mighty Site . You wrote him a short note saying you thought karting sounded interesting and could ...

Nearly 75% of verbal autistic people display some kind of echolalia. It is 'echoing' or repeating or words, sounds, sounds made b...

I think if I told some people how long my son can play or should I say, is allowed to play, on his iPad I'd get strange looks. I know if...

I think if I told some people how long my son can play or should I say, is allowed to play, on his iPad I'd get strange looks. I kno...

Today was Anthony's first Swimming Gala.  Nearly 100 kids with Special Educational Needs (SEN) from nearly 20 schools took part in a...