Displaying: Autism Spectrum Disorder Articles
  • Supporting Generalisation of Skills

    by Sophie Mustoe-Playfair
    — Speech and Language Therapist 03 Mar 2022

    In the final blog of our three-part series about focusing on key areas that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are likely to struggle with. Speech and language therapist, Sophie Mustoe-Playfair, discusses how we can support better generalisation of skills.

  • Supporting Rigidity

    by Juliet Leonard
    — Speech and Language Therapist 03 Feb 2022

    In the second of our series on focusing on key areas that children with Autism Spectrum Discorder are likely to struggle with. Juliet Leonard, Speech and Language Therapist discusses how to support children who struggle with change and new ideas, during language interventions.

  • Factors Affecting the Success of Interventions for Children with ASD - Attention

    by Louise Burton
    — Speech and Language Therapist 13 Jan 2022

    In this three-part series, we will be focusing on key areas that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are likely to struggle with, that may affect the success of your interventions with them, both in the classroom and outside the classroom. In part one of this blog series, we will be looking at attention and listening difficulties and the impact that these can have on children’s progress.

  • Spotlight on autism around the world: Oasis School in Pakistan

    by Guest Writer 25 Jun 2019

    In just 10 years, Oasis School has changed the landscape of Autism Education in Pakistan. They have forged a unique combination of relationships with Facebook, Pakistan’s celebrities, and the founders of the SCERTS Model and the TEACCH framework to create a vision of a more inclusive society in Pakistan.

  • 7 things to learn from Social Thinking®

    by Shelley Parkin
    — Speech and Language Therapist 15 Jan 2019

    Michelle Garcia Winner’s Social Thinking® is a series of concepts, treatment frameworks and strategies for supporting and teaching children with social learning difficulties. I was lucky enough to attend a Social Thinking® conference in Ireland. Michelle Garcia Winner is a very engaging speaker, and I found myself often thinking ‘wow- that’s a light bulb moment!’