By Dr Michelle Garnett and Prof Tony Attwood Introduction Over our combined 80 years of clinical experience in this area we have found that awareness and knowledge of autism is…

By Prof Tony Attwood & Dr Michelle Garnett Introduction This blog is for clinicians, therapists, and counsellors to help identify the characteristics of autism in a client who has not previously…

By Dr Michelle Garnett & Prof Tony AttwoodOne of the core difficulties of being autistic is understanding other people, that is, reading their facial expressions and body language, and inferring what…

By Prof Tony Attwood and Dr Michelle Garnett Are the rates of bullying higher for autistic children? Many of the autistic children and adolescents we see as clinicians have experienced…

By Prof Tony Attwood & Dr Michelle Garnett As much as autistic children have a different way of learning, they can also have a different way of moving. When walking or…

By Dr Michelle Garnett & Prof Tony Attwood During a diagnostic assessment for autism with an adult it is quite common for the adult to also query whether they have…

By Prof Tony Atwood and Dr Michelle Garnett Introduction There is an association between autism and difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep and the quality of sleep, for autistic individuals of…

By Dr Michelle Garnett and Prof Tony Attwood Introduction The term PDA stands for Pathological Demand Syndrome and was first coined by Elizabeth Newson, a developmental psychologist, in the 1980s…

By Prof Tony Attwood and Dr Michelle GarnettAutistic children and adults who do not develop speech can express their thoughts and feelings by body language. There can be conventional body…

By Dr Michelle S. Garnett & Prof Tony AttwoodAutistic adults appear especially vulnerable to feeling depressed, with about one in three adolescents and two out of three autistic adults having…