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Trip to Colourscape
Colourscape a unique experience linking music, colour and space. You freely walk around soaking in the feelings each colour radiates as you immerse yourself in them. Wandering through the different chambers letting th… -
Awaiting Health Care
Drowning in a tidal wave. Rapidly repeatedly smashing his head hard onto a solid object trying to cause more pain to block out the pain he is already in - giving himself something to cling onto – to find his way… -
Intensive Interaction
I don’t know how many pairs of socks C has gone through - hopefully we may have solved this….. = First had to get into C’s world to work out why pulling up his socks every few yards had become a… -
Verbal Abuse and Hate Crimes
Abuse on a large scale is not just happening behind closed doors as in the recent exposure at Winterbourne but in the community - on the streets - in public – by the public. Disability Hate Crime. I did not re… -
Multi-Sensory Rooms
Our senses - a constant stream of information - hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste being the ones we first think of but there are many others all working together – affecting each other – different int… -
Self Injurious Behaviour
There are many forms of self injurious behaviour (SIB). C has tried lots over the years, biting, scratching, pinching, eye poking, hair pulling to name a few but non have worked so well for him as banging his head. No… -
Chance Favours the Prepared Mind
I recently went to a talk given by Dimensions who described transition from child to adult services similar to falling off a cliff. I would like to add there’s an undercurrent as well which you can’t se… -
Update on the Autism Act 2009 in England
The Autism Act 2009 was the first ever disability-specific law in England. This Act did two main things. First to put a duty on the Government to produce a strategy for adults with autism, which was published on 2nd M… -
He Said Something!
Apparently C Spoke! After listening to high pitched oooooo’s and eeeee’s for 21 years I didn’t hear C's first words!! ‘Allegedly’ 1 member of staff heard C say... ‘hello’! No… -
Wanting more for Everyone
I was recently told by a manager of a residential home (not C’s) that because I have organized a Christmas lunch for the parents of C’s home that there must be a need in me to fix people. Other parents hav…
About esteeklar
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- From: esteeklar
- Name: Estee
- Location: Canada
- About Me: I am the Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project and writer of the original Joy of Autism blog, grad student of Critical Disability Studies and single mom to a wonderful autistic son named Adam.
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