Transforming Autism has received a generous grant from the Heart of Bucks
Community Fund, enabling the organisation to expand its work with autistic children and their
families across the Buckinghamshire area, with a special focus on Taplow, Iver and Burnham.
Our latest Transforming Autism project is the Play:cademy, an online parent-mediated early-years support programme for families of young autistic children.
As our understanding of autism continues to evolve, so too does our approach to helping young autistic children and their families through early intervention.
Why is Trauma so common in autism from a very early age, and what can autistic people and their parents do to help avoid it?
by Guy Shahar Published: 23rd June, 2021 Because autistic and non-autistic people have different neurological profiles, they have different ways of making sense of many things, and different preferences around how to communicate. Neither is better or worse, but because the vast majority of people are non-autistic, it’s easy for a narrative
by Guy Shahar Published: 10th December, 2020 As profoundly sensitive beings in an increasingly material and pressure-driven culture, it is easy for our autistic children to feel that they are somehow inadequate. At home, at school and elsewhere, they can easily be given messages that they are slow or clumsy or generally
by Guy Shahar Published: 21st February, 2020 In the course of family life, as we are growing up, we learn and absorb ways of behaving and communicating from our parents and others, and then we replicate this in our own families when we are older. The process happens unconsciously (which is
by Guy Shahar Published: 9th January, 2020 Guy Shahar asks whether there might be a more useful way to think about autism. Autism is almost universally considered to be a neurological condition. However, I have been learning over recent months and years that while there is undoubtedly a very significant neurological
by Guy Shahar Published: 4th May 2017 We often hear how children with autism have certain needs, like the need for routine or certainty or quietness around them or literal language so that they are not confused by figurative expressions, etc. It is widely assumed that such needs are hard-wired
by Guy Shahar 7th April, 2017 Introducing a child to their autism is a major step. Guy Shahar shares his experience and reflections on how this might optimally be done. Done in the right way at the right time, the initial conversation with a child about their autism can set
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