Summer 2020

Make Sense of Summer: Top tips on how to make the most out of ordinary outdoor activities to build on sensory input and communication.

Ask the Experts - My Child is into computers and focuses on things he can play by himself. Is this bad for him?

The Benefit or The Doubt: A round-up of recent benefit entitlements that could help you out.

Five Step Guide to Making A Passport: How to put together a ‘snapshot’ summary of your child’s needs.

Inside Angle with autism advocate Tim Tuff

Fast Forward Seven Years: AuKids has traced the progress of three children for the last seven years. What seemed slow and steady overnight suddenly seems like giant progress in retrospect.

Ask the Experts is on taking flight: ‘We’re taking the dreaded plane journey this summer. How can we make it easier for our autistic son?’ There’s an interview with the founder of Rackety’s clothing company, which makes specialist clothing for kids with disabilities.

‘The Benefit…or the Doubt?’ gives advice on benefits (please note this will be outdated and has been updated in a later issue). ‘Keeping it Together’ addresses the issue of the strain that having a child with autism can put on families, and in particular adult relationships. We give some useful hints and tips about keeping going through tough times.

Keywords Issue 7: Tough times; relationships; plane journeys; aeroplanes; plane trips; Racketys; specialist clothing; benefits