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Steph lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and two daughters, Tamsin, age 14, and Sasha, age 12. Sasha was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2 and her particular type of autism is known as Pathological Demand Avoidance. She blogs at Steph’s Two Girls When and where did you last go on holiday? Our last holiday as a family …
Gemma lives with her husband, John, and two children: Billy, age 11, and Isla, almost nine, who has an autism diagnosis. She blogs at Isla’s Voice Our Journey With Autism When and where did you last go on holiday? Our last holiday was in October half term although we do have weekends away in between. It was our second holiday …
Jade Page lives in Keynsham, near Bristol, with her husband and two boys, age four and six, who are both autistic. She shares information and resources related to autism on her blog The Autism Page When and where did you last go on holiday? Our last holiday was the biggest one. Last summer we went to America to stay with …
Miriam Gwynne blogs at Faith Mummy. She lives in Glasgow with her husband (ASD, depression, and neurofibromatosis type 1), and 11 year old twins: Naomi (ASD, anxiety, eating disorder, selective mute) Isaac (ASD, non verbal, learning disability, epilepsy, brain tumour, visually impaired) When and where did you last go on holiday? Last November to Wemyss Bay on the West coast …
Welcome to the first instalment of our new Q&A mini-series as part of World Autism Awareness Week. Over the next few days, we’ll delve into the travelling habits of SEND families and answer the question: How do other people do it? First up is Kate Blackledge who microblogs on Facebook and Instagram as The Passable Parent. Kate lives in …
Celebrating Halloween with an autistic child is a bit of a trial and error situation. Some children are happy to go trick or treating, for others it’s the hardest thing in the world. Some children are really keen to dress up and answer the door to strangers. Others are petrified at the thought. For the last few years, we’ve …
How do I look after myself? This week is Mental Health Awareness week, and it’s probably a question we should all be asking. Life is busy for all parents but for those of us with children who have additional needs, we’re a different kind of busy – endless meetings, hospital appointments and school appointments on top of the day-to-day crazy …
He finally got it. After six years, Big Bear received his autism diagnosis last week. I wasn’t sure how I’d feel at the news. J and I were fairly confident that he would get the diagnosis, although you can never be 100 per certain. Still, when you’re sitting in a room with someone telling you your child is autistic, it’s …
“Did you have a good day?” I asked Big Bear when he came out of school on the first day of the new school year. “Yep”, he smiled. “He’s had a fantastic day,” his Year 2 teacher replied beaming, before listing all the things he’d done that day. He’d even received a merit for his hard work. “Brilliant,” I said …
When was the last time you had ‘one of those days’? You know, the days when everything goes wrong and you can’t wait until bedtime? We have elements of one of those days most days but I recently had a day that was particularly relentless. It started off well. We had a productive meeting at school to go through Big …