Today’s challenge: squeezing a full day’s worth of “Understanding Autism” training into just two hours? Obviously, I’d love more time. But opportunities like this don’t come around often, and I want to make it count. This session could be the one that sparks real change for someone, so I need to make it work.

The Autism Network strikes again !  The best thing about Mondays at the moment is delivering a series of one-day in-depth ‘Understanding Autism’ courses for staff from an HSCP in Scotland for The Autism Network. 

I was having a break from weekly blogging – blame workload, good weather and life in general.  But … then I heard this story from a Mum of a child going through the diagnosis assessment process. 

Is the autism training market saturated?  This is the allegation that was made against me last week with the implication I should step aside in favour of autistic-led services/organisations/people.

‘Neurotypicalism’  - (seen in a LinkedIn post)  another new neuro- word for me to get my head around. There seems to be a new one every week. 

I recently read an interesting paper that was recommended to me about the re-institutionalisation of people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people.

Belongingness: apparently is the ‘human need to be a member of a group’.  We all have different motivations and levels of desire to belong to a group.

One of the common ways that we label ourselves, is by the job we do, our professional status.