The impact of COVID 19 lockdowns on children
The impact of COVID 19 lockdowns on children’s development and the early identification of possible Autism.
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Diagnostic concerns and revisions to the DSM 5
We have received a number of enquiries recently from people concerned about changes to the DSM 5 Autism diagnostic criteria. For...
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Back to school for children with PDA…four years on
This blog is another ‘four years on update’ to a previous blog, as I have realised (a) how much has changed for families since...
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Autism, anxiety and the impact upon parents … four years on
This article is an update of our original article written in 2017 – long before we, and our children, were faced with the...
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Online assessments – 17 months on
In March 2020, when the first lockdown to try and manage the spread of the COVID-19 virus began, many Autism assessment teams...
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The Challenge of Complex (and Perplexing) Presentations in Autism.
This is the title of a new book I will be writing, along with colleagues, and which will include real life stories from...
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PDA Research News
As many people who have attended the various PDA conferences over the last couple of years may know, we as a team, decided back...
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The need for better diagnoses
Adult diagnosis, mis-diagnosis, and experience of parenting for autistic women
Over the years I have spent a great deal of my...
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The benefits of online ASD assessments
Due to many weeks of lockdown, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been reviewing different ways of carrying out autism...
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Reflections on lockdown, and new ways of assessing
Like many clinical teams who have traditionally been involved in face to face interaction with people, the last two months have...
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The need to better understand how autism presents
A new year dawns and it is always a good time to reflect upon the previous year. At Help for Psychology (in common with many...
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If at first you don’t succeed …
The latest article within this series hasn’t been written by Dr Judy Eaton, but instead by Kaylee Weaver, one of...
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Transitioning to secondary school from primary school for Autistic children
Many children (especially girls) do not receive a formal diagnosis of Autism until they move to secondary (or High school) around...
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Our current thinking on PDA
As many people may be aware, there has been a great deal of interest in, and controversy around, PDA. What it is, what...
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Living in a ‘five minute bubble’ – the impact of poor executive functioning.
Human babies are amongst the least developed, in terms of their ability to manage independently, of all mammals. They are born...
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The importance of correct early intervention for children with Autism
Like most people I have been following the recent news stories about young people with autism and the PDA profile carefully. The...
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