Neurodivergent people often experience challenges in exercising skills associated with self-determination and self-advocacy. Being pinnacle life skills that drive their success in education, employment, independence and within society, with the…
In this last part of our four-part series on Exploring Autism, Professor Tony Attwood discusses prognosis and autism. In the first part of our series, Tony described autism in an…
In the third part of our four-part series on Exploring Autism, Professor Tony Attwood describes some conditions that commonly co-occur with autism. In the first part of our series, Tony…
In this four-part series Professor Tony Attwood reflects on a 50-year career in autism. In the first part of our series last week, Tony discussed autism in an historical context.…
In this four-part series Professor Tony Attwood reflects on a 50-year career in autism. In the first part of our series, he discusses autism in an historical context. In the…
Being a scientist practitioner, I turned to the research literature on yoga early on in my journey and was amazed to discover there have been at least four decades of…
In yogic philosophy the true Self is bigger than everything else in the person’s experience, including their sense of self identity. True Self is like the whiteboard, and everything else…
For nearly 30 years, I have specialised in autism, working directly with autistic people as a clinical psychologist. People say to me it must be really difficult and challenging working…
An alternative form of consciousness distinguished as an oscillation of psychic energy between the unconscious and conscious mind informing one’s whole field of perception: cognitive, emotional, social, physical and spiritual.…
Autistic children appear to be vulnerable to feeling anxious for much of their school day, often experiencing extreme anxiety in anticipation of, or in response to, specific events, such as…