Recent Blog Posts

• Behaviour that challenges, not challenging behaviour

  I was honoured to be invited to speak at a super conference in Birmingham on 2nd November hosted by the UK’s National Autistic Society and the Sensory Integration Network. We know that many people who have autism and an intellectual...

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• Facing the Future Individualisation event great success

  
  Our Facing the Future: Individualisation event last week went really well. Kathryn, Emer and I were nervous as we don’t organise events like this on regular basis! We were delighted with the attendance of more than 230 people.

  Minister of...

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• Facing the Future 2 - Individualisation

  I am delighted to be working with my two friends Emer and Kathryn to organise another information evening for people with disabilities, their families and for professionals working in the disability sector. This time it is on ‘Individualisation’, venue: the...

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• Challenging Times: ensuring values support ordinary lives - Exploring Family and Person Centered approaches

  I recently attended this excellent conference in Maynooth Co Kildare. It was organised and run by the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies (a national umbrella organisation for voluntary/non-statutory agencies who provide direct services to people with intellectual disability in Ireland)...

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• Tips to support communication for individuals with ASD

  I want to let you know about some excellent training that I recently attended. It was given by Claire Smyton and Leah McKeown from the Centre for Autism at Middletown in Co. Armagh. Please see https://www.middletownautism.com for more information. The...

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• Would you like shopping if it felt like this?

  April is Autism Awareness month (April 2nd was world autism awareness day). I want to raise awareness about one particular aspect of autism – sensory processing disorder. This affects everyone with autism as well as many with other disabilities. It...

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• Off We Go! books launched in the US and Canada

  I am very excited to let you know that my Off We Go! series has recently launched in the US and Canada with my US publishing partner Woodbine House Publishing. It has been my pleasure to get to know and work with...

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• When diagnosis raises more questions than answers

  In my previous blog entries; Undiagnosed for 12 Years - now Array Tests Give us a Clue and Rare Chromosomal Disorders, more common than you might think, I shared some of my story of how after 13 years of questions about...

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