My sister, Grace, has severe autism. She is not conversational. Which means if you ask her, "Hey, Grace! How was your day?" She will probably not make eye…
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/world-autism-awareness-day [timeanddate.com] 2 AVRIL 2015 Journée mondiale de sensibilisation à l'autisme JOURNEE BLEUE…
The words fantastic and summer are two that I never really expected to say together again. Summer holidays are typically hard work when you have a severely…
I had problems with my camera on Sunday. It was so hot that it kept steaming up when I took it in the sea but Breaking the Barrier [lifeworks-uk.org] is such a…
Biggish waves for Archie this weekend. There was a bit of a swell. I wasn't sure how he would react and half expected him to refuse to get on the board, but…
A late entry - but for Archie's birthday we arranged a surf lesson for all the boys. Joe did particularly well, especially as he was initially terrified - stood…
This is Ian, one of our students ( well, not technically OUR student since he belongs to the dance group ) from Autism Resource Center. He kinda forced me to…
Those are origami made by my CWTS2 group and Phillip, our only student for today. He is autistic, and non-verbal. But it surprised me how talented the boy is,…
We love this annual event. Surfable [lifeworks-uk.org] organised by Lifeworks is an annual surf camp for children with learning disabilities. They are able to…
Joseph my 8 year old has never been particularly keen on horses. He's always found them big and frightening and was really not very sure about going to Horse…
We've just spent a weekend at a Horse Boy camp. These are for children with autism and their families. We stayed in a yurt and the kids had a chance to spend…
My youngest son who is 5 likes to take care of his older severely autistic brother. In these photos we'd been for a long walk and my youngest suddenly became…
Number one son had an extra day off this half term, so we took a local train past his favourite bridge. You can see the excitement as the bridge comes into view…
I took the eldest to Bigbury. You can see Burgh Island in the background, with the distinctive and very lovely hotel. It was really windy, so we bought some…