by Thinking Autism | 5 April, 2020 | reThinking Autism blog
Finding your kindness: Autism and COVID-19 Finding your kindness: Autism and COVID-19 I’m holding my son’s hand as we walk through the parking lot toward the grocery store. People give us looks. He’s 17 and they likely cannot understand why we’re holding hands. We’re...
by Thinking Autism | 2 November, 2019 | reThinking Autism blog
As a Chartered Psychologist, child development researcher and author in the autism/ASD field, I frequently meet misperceptions of neurodiversity in relation to programmes for autism and health recovery. Somehow or other the belief has developed that to offer such help to an individual on the autistic spectrum is to deny their neurodiversity. In this blog I suggest a new way of looking at this subject…
by Thinking Autism | 19 June, 2019 | reThinking Autism blog
Turning the Tide of Behaviourism Please find below some thoughts from Romulus Campan, an adult with autism and a delegate at our recent conference. I had the pleasure of talking to Rom at the conference. I cannot remember the last time I met someone so open-minded,...