Clarity Autism Services

We often recommend certain books to children, young people, adults, and their family and thought we would compile a quick list to help others. Which books have you found helpful?  #autism

A really helpful resource created by The National Autistic Society – the Know Yourself series – includes general guides and personalized worksheets to understanding yourself, energy accounting and identity. A particularly great resource for autistic teenagers! #autism

Thank you to the Durham Centre for Academic Development @ Durham University for inviting Dr. Patrick Welsh to their away day to talk about neurodiversity and reasonable adjustments, with attendees making pledges to continue their personal development & knowledge in their roles.

Following the HIFAMS questionnaire, here's another helpful exercise to understand how a child feels about school life - Drawing The Ideal School exercise. This is particularly helpful when understanding emotionally based school avoidance, how to aid any transition back to school

It's almost time to return to school, and the 'How I Feel About My School' (HIFAMS) questionnaire is a helpful tool to aid a conversation about how a child feels about school life 🏫❓

Improve your understanding of what is supportive to alleviate a young learner’s #Anxiety in #School & to help each student flourish with our brilliant upcoming webinar on ‘#SchoolAnxiety & #EmotionalBasedSchoolAvoidance’. Book now to learn more! bit.ly/46aSOrt

What a great resource this is - Beyond Accommodations: Supporting Autistic Health Professionals - including templates to discuss person-specific reasonable adjustments in the work place 🤩👍

Happy World #AutismAwarenessDay everyone, and Happy #AutismAcceptanceWeek 🎉

We were given consent to share this amazing poem by a young boy and his family, which he wrote about his experience of having ADHD. Not only is this poem great, but it also earned him his first Blue Peter badge! #autism #adhd

Hopefully more can be done to reduce waiting times for children/young people & ensure that the benefits of diagnosis occur; "Diagnosis can bring enlightenment, essential support and legal protection to help these children negotiate their way through life" theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

UK CHILDREN WAIT…16 months to 5 years for ADHD & autism screening. Experts said “inhumane” waits put a generation of neurodiverse children at risk of mental illness as they are “pushed to the back of a long queue” for child mental health services (Camhs). theguardian.com/society/2023/j…

There’s a lot on TV about #autism at the moment, including this powerful depiction in a recent advert by Vanish. Who has seen it? 🖐🏻 youtu.be/4Xtog_zRRJg

This is fantastic!!!! Ava Gallagher won the 'Power of Poetry' competition for her poem about #autism, her strengths, difficulties, and masking. Great work, Ava! 👏 uk.style.yahoo.com/birchwood-stud…

@FCPFiona Ah I love that idea, Fiona! Thanks for sharing!

@ClarityAutism Great graphic. I use this concept a lot in my work, often thinking about this as a seesaw and also the use of traffic lights so there can be a balance of activities across any day or week 😊

We regularly recommend the use of ‘Energy Accounting’ - considering what may ‘withdraw’ energy & what can help to ‘deposit’ energy. This is a really helpful concept to proactively manage fatigue & assist with regulation of emotion. Please let us know if you have used this before!

Did anyone watch 'Unmasking My Autism' on BBC last night? Article and discussion points on the programme & topic can be found below. bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic… Great to see a programme focusing on raising awareness of masking and camouflaging of autistic traits 👏👏

Looking forward to watching this on Tuesday. We definitely support anything that aims to increase people’s understanding of autism (and even better if this is coming directly from the autistic community!) 👍

Looking forward to watching this later today (4:55pm on BBC1) - Perhaps it is also a good way to encourage children to talk about their feelings? Hope you all have a lovely Christmas🎄🤶🧑‍🎄🎅 - bbc.co.uk/bitesize/artic…

Eek! Christmas on Sunday!🎅T.Atwood & M.Garnett compiled some "Tips and Reminders for Surviving Christmas..." which may be helpful? Definitely recommend considering 'socialising capacity' & proactively thinking about the routine/ways to replenish energy during the week/day itself