Exploring Autism Part 4: Long-term Outcomes by Professor Tony Attwood
In this last part of our four-part series on Exploring Autism, Professor Tony Attwood discusses prognosis and autism. In the first part of our series, Tony described autism in an…
Exploring Autism Part 3: Autism Plus by Professor Tony Attwood
In the third part of our four-part series on Exploring Autism, Professor Tony Attwood describes some conditions that commonly co-occur with autism. In the first part of our series, Tony…
Exploring Autism Part 2: Adaptations by Professor Tony Attwood
In this four-part series Professor Tony Attwood reflects on a 50-year career in autism. In the first part of our series last week, Tony discussed autism in an historical context.…
Exploring Autism Part 1: The Historical Context by Professor Tony Attwood
In this four-part series Professor Tony Attwood reflects on a 50-year career in autism. In the first part of our series, he discusses autism in an historical context. In the…
The Anxious Autistic Child at School Part 3: Triggers for Anxiety by Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett
Autistic children appear to be vulnerable to feeling anxious for much of their school day, often experiencing extreme anxiety in anticipation of, or in response to, specific events, such as…
The Anxious Autistic Child at School Part 2: Underlying Reasons By Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons for the referral of an autistic child for assistance. The high levels of anxiety experienced are more challenging than the diagnostic characteristics…
Tips for Managing a Meltdown
We can feel helpless when we watch our autistic child meltdown in front of us, and traditional parenting and teaching techniques do not work. What can we do? Tony and…
The Anxious Autistic Child at School Part 1: Signs of anxiety in the classroom by Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett
One of the challenges an autistic child or adolescent can face at school is for their behaviour to be interpreted as being ‘naughty’ or oppositional and defiant. Whilst autistic children,…
The Latest Research on Camouflaging
By Professor Tony Attwood Autistic children will know at quite a young age that they are different to their peers with regard to the ability to read facial expressions, body…
The Three Adaptations to Social Situations
By Professor Tony Attwood One of the central characteristics of autism in DSM 5 is a deficit in social communication and social interaction. The social and interpersonal aspects of life…