If you want to grow your parental support network, then have a look now at some steps you can take in the next few months.

This week is world autism acceptance week, and I came across a quote that summed up for me the challenge children and adults on the autism spectrum face to achieve equality and acceptance: "Autism is not a choice, but acceptance is."

How are you coping with lockdown? Are you maintaining routine and how are your children reacting?

It’s only being the parents of boys with autism that we have found out over the years that some people with autism have insensitivity to pain. As no child with autism is ever the same, it's also true that many others have a very low pain threshold.