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 neurodiv...

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 neuro...

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 Space...

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 can be high and cause anxiety. The reality...

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 more c...

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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 we use is Neurodiversit...

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 specific channel of in...

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 increase in t...

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 Year

“He is still very young.” SEN...

Let’s be honest, the dark days of Winter can get to us all. I’ve certainly felt it this year. It’s not stopped raining for weeks here in Wales.

Going outside is often challenging with bad weather, which means a lack of sunlight and less exercise for us and our children to burn off that excess energ...

This time of year is when we can feel there’s so much ‘to do’, and so many expectations of what’s supposed to happen or be done!

Which puts yet more pressure on us as parents and care givers.

Some of the challenges we could be experiencing include feeling the pressure to conform to others beliefs,...

Christmas is a month away, eeek how did that happen?

How is it only a  month till Christmas 🎅 

Last year I was surprised when I first saw Christmas trees going up by the end of November, but, bearing in mind the year we had just had in 2020, I soon realised the Winter festivities were a much neede...