Issue 50

Winter 2021

The AuKids Top 20 - Best Books from the Last Decade!

Ask the Experts - ‘My child is desperate for friends. What’s the best way she can make them?’ All our experts are autistic adults who give advice from a personal perspective.

The Language Layer Cake - The tastiest feature from our archive explains the stages of development when it comes to speech, in cake form. We like cake.

My Crystal Ball - As AuKids stops trading, what does the future hold for autism?

Plus, is our ‘new normal’ better for autism? And Bobby Elley, 17, talks about his experiences of echolalia.

Issue 47

Spring 2020

Homework: How to Win the Battle without Making Enemies: For the ‘from our archive’ section, we dug out this popular feature on tackling schoolwork at home.

Inside Angle - Alex Manners - Alex reflects on his parents’ worries about him when he was younger and shares the encouraging story of how he found his niche in life, with advice for readers.

Tell Me On A Sundae - We explain our thinking behind our new Ice Cream Sundae Guide to Autism book for children.

Pass the Pearls 2- Way way back, we asked parents of older autistic children to give us their ‘pearls of wisdom’ for parents of younger kids. Looking back, what were they most glad of? What would they change? What advice turned out to be most- and least - valuable? We loved this feature, so we asked a new set of parents for their views - and here’s its sequel.