Neurodivergent Families: Top Tips for Low-Demand Family Celebrations
Guest Blogger | Helen Edgar
Family celebrations and holiday events can be a stressful time for anyone, but when your family includes neurodivergent individuals, the challenges can be unique and sometimes overwhelming. This blog...
The Embodied Sensory System and Our Nine Sensory Systems
Guest Blogger | Helen Edgar
We will look at our NINE Sensory Systems (although some research says we may have up to 33 sensory systems!). We will explore why this information is important for understanding how we interact with the...
What are Reasonable Adjustments & What is Reasonable? Let’s look at equality vs. equity!
Sept 2023 Webinar with Amanda Hinds for The PDA Space | Blog by Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms)
Everyone wants their child to be happy and to succeed in school. However, for many children,...
Guest Blogger: Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms)
Nicola Reekie recently presented a webinar, 'Beginnings, Endings and The Elephant in the Room' for The PDA Space which is available here. Nicola discussed how it is often not just the child in the family that may be Autistic/PDA/ADHD (or any other...
Guest Blog: Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms
Tigger Pritchard delivered a great workshop with The PDA Space where they discussed 'The Sensory Impact of School Holidays', which is available to watch here in The PDA Space Portal.
Sensory Systems
Everyone has a sensory system; autistic and otherwise...
Guest Blog: Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms.
Corrina Wood (specialist autism practitioner and advisor) has created a great webinar about recognising and reducing the impact of demands to help make transitions more manageable for our children and young people. This webinar is available in The PDA...
Guest blog: Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms
Family holidays and days out are a great way to spend time together and can create lasting memories. However, our expectations of how we think holidays ‘should be’ and what we think we ‘should do’ as parents/carers...
Family life can be busy and chaotic, you may feel like you are constantly juggling to try and keep some kind of balance just to get through the day and avoid a crisis. Changes to everyday routines such as celebration days and events can be difficult for neurodivergent people to manage and get...
Register for the 2023 PDA Summit
Guest blog: Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms
It can often feel as you step into the Neurodivergent world and community that there’s a different language being spoken, often with misconceptions and inaccuracies. It's important that the language...
Guest blog: Helen Edgar, Autistic Realms
I am really excited to bring the first blog for The PDA Space this year, written by Helen Edgar from Autistic Realms, covering the emotive topic of monotropism. To quote Helen, “Monotropism is a force that draws autistic people into a...
Guest blog: Kyra Chambers, The Prism Cat
One of our past PDA Summit speakers shares her experience of late diagnosis and dealing with the barriers to Mental Health support. She shares how, ironically, a missed diagnosis could have saved her life.
In recent years there has been an...
Guest Blog: Anon
When your child has high anxiety about the whole school environment, and begs you every morning, and at every bedtime, not to take them in....
...you seek advice.
“He’s fine in school.” Teacher
“You don’t think he is Autistic do you?” Head of...
