The Power of Creativity
What is creativity and why is it so important?
Are We Free to Speak?
What does it mean to express yourself without fear? Fear of being attacked, shamed and ridiculed? Why have we come to the current narrative that it’s ok to silence those who we may disagree with? Is this really how we can advance?
Flying with colours: Family art activity
How one family decided to try out watercolour painting for this first time…
Exploring the Sensory World of Autism
Why it’s important to learn how to see the world through the eyes of the autistic person and what sensory differences mean for their navigation of the world.
What is Autism?
A poem written by a 12 year old girl about what autism meant to her.
10 Tips To Become a Great Autism Professional
What are the must-knows when working as a professional with autistic people?
In this blog post, we provide you with 10 tips how you can become a great professional and how you can make sure your work is a success to all.
How I became aware that my brother was ‘different’
A story of a teenage girl and her realisation of what it was like to have an autistic brother.
The 4 Types of Parents
It is conventional to classify autistic children according to the impairments of social interaction and describe their varieties by grouping them into 4 main types: the aloof group, the passive group, the “active but odd” group, the over-formal, stilted group. However, what about their parents?
In this blog post, Olga Bogdashina explores what it would be like for parents to be in one of these groups.
The 5 (not-so-positive) Stages Parents Go Through Post-Diagnosis of Autism
What happens when you (as a parent) hear that your child has autism? Taken as an excerpt from Bogdashina’s latest book, we explore the 5 stages that parents may go through after learning about their child’s diagnosis of autism.