Most parents/carers were never expecting to have to be teachers for their children. It takes years to learn how to be an educator, and whilst…
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Have you got expert tips, advice, resources, lived experience, research or credible information to share with our community? We are looking for contributors for our…
Planning for your child’s transition into adulthood
For parents and carers of children on the spectrum the idea of their child becoming an adult can be overwhelming. What will the future hold?…
Lifting the mystery of what your NDIS plan can buy
COVID-19 challenges us to find new life routines. An expert NDIS team has built a free online tool to help explain in plain English what...
Autism and Coronavirus (COVID-19)… The Essentials
Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, health crisis…. these are the headlines that we are hearing on repeat. We are facing very scary and confusing times. It’s difficult...
Choosing a support worker can be full of surprises
Imagine if you could have access to a fully qualified doctor to be your child’s support worker. This has been the case for Melissa Rymer...
In conversation with Judy Singer…
Judy Singer is a sociologist, author and international speaker. She is noted for the coinage of the word “Neurodiversity” in a thesis published at the…
The five senses: under or over reactions
Sensory sensitivities and autism… Touch, taste, sound, sight and smell are the five senses we are all familiar with. Many children do not like loud…
AUStism 2020 – New event dates
Given the current issues and uncertainty around COVID-19 we’ve unfortunately had to make the difficult call to postpone our AUStism events to October 2020. We’re disappointed but...
Family fun at the State Library of NSW
Have you ever visited the State Library of NSW and did you know it’s the oldest Library in Australia? We have 1.7m books, 167,000 paintings,…