Issue 25

Autumn 2014

At the heart of AuKids is practical advice and light-entertainment. The practical advice in this issue comes in the form of Conversation Rivers Part 2, focusing on how you can encourage youngsters who are just starting to develop some verbal skills to increase their interaction and communication.

We also asked some fantastic Teaching Assistants for their top tips for mainstream schooling – we could hardly pack their advice into two pages but we managed! Professor Tommy MacKay and Dr Anne Greig were making waves with their book The Homunculi Approach to Social and Emotional Wellbeing,

and wrote a piece for us on how autistic kids can dream up characters to help their brains make the right choices.

The light-entertainment part, always a highlight in AuKids, was AuKids’ Politically Correct Guide to Clueless Comments, especially for parents who are tired of ‘tactful’ remarks in the playground.

Issue 19

Spring 2013

We had an excuse to get permission from Lucas Films to use a photograph of Harrison Ford, which graced our Indiana Jones-style feature, titled The Search for the Holy Grail. In the early days after diagnosis, it feels like someone has all the answers about autism, you just don’t know it yet. We talk you through the frustrating business of working out where to begin to help your child.

By now AuKids’ reputation had grown sufficiently to attract some big names to the publication, including world renowned speech and language pathologist Heather MacKenzie. The editors had attended her SPARK training programme, which aims to teach autistic kids resilience and self-regulation and we felt it awesome enough to share. Co-editor Debby also jumped through some hoops to get a specialist Will and Trust scheme made, so that we could show readers what to expect.

PLEASE NOTE: Our Wills and Trusts expert for this Issue, Christine Thornley, has since moved to Irwin Mitchell and can now be contacted at the company on: 0370 1500 100 Extension: 2593
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