A warm welcome to the latest membership update from the National Autistic Society. Here you’ll find news, advice, services we provide and how we are looking to make your membership more meaningful. To celebrate our 60th anniversary, we aimed to…

Enjoy some summer reading with the latest issue of the Spectrum magazine! In the ‘being yourself’ edition, Lavender Girl describes spending a lifetime trying to fit in. Kayleigh writes about masking at school and work, while Nick says how hard…

We are very pleased to have recently received this certificate of appreciation, following on from recent work based learners students attending Axia. Bev Lonergan Facilities Manager and Directors P.A.   Share This Post:

Thank you to Dr Catriona Stewart from the Scottish Women’s Autism Network, for her wonderful presentation on “Well Being, Peer support and Self-Identity”, given to our July Post-Diagnostic Support Group meeting.   For those of you who missed our July…

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football  (available for Nintendo Switch only) Mario Strikers: Battle League Football is developed by Next Level Games, making this their first project since being purchased by Nintendo at the beginning of last year. Mario Strikers was…

The Government has published its draft bill to change mental health laws in England and Wales. This is a huge step forward in the campaign to stop the scandal of autistic people being wrongly detained and stuck in mental health…

Thank you to Julia and Sarah from the PDA Society for their extremely interesting and informative presentation, “An Introduction to PDA” given to our May Post-Diagnostic Support Group meeting.   For those of you who missed our May PDSG, the…

We would just like to bring to peoples attention, that although the ADHD NICE Guidelines Patient Booklet mentions under 5 year olds, we are not able to assess for ADHD in children who are under 7 years old.   Please…

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A controversial bill that will recognise British Sign Language (BSL) as a language in England, Scotland and Wales is set to become law after being passed by both Houses of Parliament. BSL-users have been warned that the private members’ bill…

Following Dr Haigh’s recent PDSG on ‘Accessing Mental Health services’ , it was highlighted that people wanted some guidance on what adjustments can be asked for across different services, and how to do this. We have now extended our existing…

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (Avalible for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox series X and S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC) (PlayStation 5 version used for review) My experience with Lego Star Was: The Skywalker Saga is that…

Doctors knew in 1973 that the epilepsy drug sodium valproate posed a risk to unborn children — and ordered that warnings be removed from packets. Almost 50 years and 20,000 disabled babies later, it is still being prescribed to pregnant…