Challenging Behaviour Have you ever stopped yourself to ask, ‘what is challenging behaviour?’ and ‘what can I do to stop it?’ The key takeaway from today is that your child’s behavior is a form of communication. Through their behaviour they are sending you powerful messages and trying to connect with
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: 2nd April, 2020 It’s something that’s often experienced and talked about by autistic people but rarely discussed publicly. It’s the phenomenon that at some point in life, you just run out of steam and find yourself unable to keep up with the way of life you’ve been
by Guy Shahar Published: 30th July, 2019 Finding the one thing that can make the difference between calmness and anxiety. My son still sometimes gets into a state of frustration due to some residual fears and anxieties as described in the previous Overcoming Fears article. We have noticed something that we
by Guy Shahar Published: 11th July 2017 I go on a lot about how I feel and observe that for many children sensitivity is at the root of autism. My TED talk introduced the concept and it has been expanded in several articles, especially a recent one about Sensitivity
by Guy Shahar Published 16th June, 2016 This is not one of those posts where you find a long list of techniques you can use to achieve something. As anyone who has dealt with them will know from experience, once a meltdown has started, there is little that can be done
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