I found this on another site and thought it might be good to post it here too. If you live with autism can you spare a moment to do this please The final Prime Ministerial debate takes place on Thursday night. The final debate is about the economy. It is estimated that there are at least half a mill...

I found this on google. I can pick out 6 traits from each Common Traits Between NLD and Aspergers NLD and Aspergers share the following traits: •Difficulty understanding nonverbal communication •Large vocabulary •Strong verbal skills •Problems with social interaction •Interested in making friends bu...

DD is currently being assessed by salt within school. In the report sent to paed NVLD was loosly suggested as a possible dx, however we have to wait until the end of next month for the assessments to be complete before salt can determine whether to refer to be assessed for this disorder. I had never...

Hi Lisa how you doing? Training was pretty much sensory OT coming to ours and showing me how to brush dd and compress her joints. It's a rubber surgical brush used for scrubbing up before surgery. Not scratchy and quite soft so you have to brush as hard as you can. Ot sent me an info pack with sugge...

Has anyone got any experience with body brushing? We are on day 9, 2 hourly brushing and 3 days to go before school starts again. I don't know how we've made it this far :shock: Haven't been able to have days out, can't strip a 10yr old discreetly in a corner :mrgreen: I have my fingers crossed brus...

[quote="Lisad"]Welcome to Spectrum Girls forum. It does what it says on the tin, we are a forum for parents of girls who have ASD. Girls with ASD are few and far between and most of the support for ASD is for boys and so hence this site. May I start by introducing myself. My name is Lisa a...