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A working trip to Estonia.

I am just back from a really rewarding experience delivering autism training in Estonia at the European School in Tallinn.

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Autism training has changed.

My interest has never been in autism training, to me it’s always been simply a good vehicle to have a positive impact.

I am facilitating the participant to understand, to reflect, and to find their own answers.

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Neurodiversity - down another rabbit hole.

I went down another interesting internet rabbit hole today.

I noticed on LinkedIn someone who is a ‘Certified Neurodiversity Professional’.

My curiosity was tweaked.

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Say it right: where next?

Being exact and up-to-date with language and terminology is both important but also it can tie you into knots.

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Free training

On social media I am seeing more and more opportunities for free autism training. Sounds great (except for those who run training businesses).

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What is independence?

Who is really independent? We would all say that we want to be an independent individual. But what we really mean is we want the autonomy to choose what parts of our lives we want to be independent in.

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Election time

We are about to head into an election (it’s been a while since the last so you can’t say ‘Not another one’). So what would the best outcome be for autistic people and their families?

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Autism and the pandemic

Are the chances of autistic people getting Covid-19 higher or lower than non-autistic people?

There seem to be two points of view.

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