Stories of Autism Advocacy from Parents around the World
From America to Australia, and stopping off in every continent in between, these stories from the parents of autistic children highlight changing attitudes to autism.…
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Telling a Child About their Autism
This blog is a helpful, in-depth exploration of deciding on the right time to tell a child about their autism diagnosis, and judging whether they…
15 Things to Say at your Book Launch
Adapted from the inspiring speech she gave at the launch of her first book, Debby Elley highlights the reasons why she wrote Fifteen Things They…
Developing Resilience: Top 5 Tips for Parents of Autistic teens
Announcing the second book in the Parents’ Practical Guide to Resilience range, authors Jeanette Purkis & Emma Goodall take us through their top tips for…
Art Therapy Cards for Children: What they are and how to best use them
The author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, Elitsa Velikova introduces her Art Therapy cards and shares some ideas on how one can work with…
Life after “He’s Always Been My Son”
Janna Barkin is the proud mother of a transgender son, and a passionate transgender youth rights advocate. She writes regularly for the Huffington Post and…
Focusing on Children With an Incarcerated Parent by Judi Goozh and Sue Jeweler
Judi Goozh is a retired award-winning speech-language pathologist. Sue Jeweler is a retired award-winning, Who’s Who listed teacher. Judi and Sue were nominated for the 2013 White House…
Fifteen Things They Forgot to Tell You About Autism
Co-editor of the not for profit parenting magazine, AuKids, Debby Elley has now written her first parenting guide, Fifteen Things They Forgot to Tell You About…
Sarah Naish discusses therapeutic parenting as a best practice for helping children overcome trauma and attachment difficulties
Sarah Naish discusses how her training as a social worker and standard parenting strategies did not equip her to deal with parenting her five adopted…
How art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns
Elitsa Velikova, the author of Art Therapy Cards for Children, writes about how art therapy can help with children’s sleep patterns and shares some ‘creative’…