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Dec 17, 2024
Reducing Christmas Overwhelm for Autistic Children and Young People
Many Autistic children and young people find Christmas time overwhelming for a variety of reasons. If you’ve read our previous post about...
Dec 5, 2024
Preparing for Christmas with Autistic Children: A Guide for Families
If you have an Autistic child or young person or as yet undiagnosed, Christmas time can bring additional challenges for many reasons....
Nov 19, 2024
Royston Town Football Club
The Spectrum team is proud to support Royston Town Football Club's Youth Inclusive Team. We look forward to sharing more details about...
Nov 15, 2024
Children In Need
Children in Need is a charity close to everyone's heart, funding projects for children and young people facing challenges such as...
Nov 12, 2024
Before the Autism Assessment
Many families speak to us at Spectrum about how to talk to their child or young person about the ADOS-2 part of the assessment and what...
Oct 26, 2024
Why are rates of Autism diagnosis increasing?
At Spectrum, we love this graphic from Pete Wharmby, Autistic Author https://www.facebook.com/Petewharmbyauthor because it shows exactly...
Oct 15, 2024
Five Star Review
From the very beginning Spectrum set out to provide positive, neuro-affirmative autism diagnostic assessments for children and young...
Sep 20, 2024
Hertfordshire Business Awards 2024
On Thursday 19th September, Sarah and Jenny from our core team, represented Spectrum at the Watford Chamber of Commerce SME Herts...
Aug 27, 2024
Positive Self-Worth
One of our core values at Spectrum is that whenever a child or young person comes to us for an Autism assessment, we focus not just on...
Aug 20, 2024
Cambridge Independent Business Awards – Finalists – Start Up of the Year
Spectrum are excited to announce that we have been selected as a Finalist in the Start-Up of the Year Category at the Cambridge Business...
Aug 12, 2024
Love Wins
Not a specifically Autism related post, but it just seems as if there’s a lot of hate out there at the moment. We just wanted to remind...
Jul 19, 2024
Neurodivergent-Informed Strategies
At Spectrum, we fully support the use of Neuro-Affirming and Neurodivergent-Informed Strategies to support Autistic people. In her...
Jul 4, 2024
Autism and Definitions
Sometimes, understanding how to talk about Autism and Autistic people can be very confusing even for those of us who have been working in...
Jun 19, 2024
Autistic communication is different, not deficient
At Spectrum, we feel very strongly that it is essential to understand a child or young person’s individual communication style and to...
Jun 11, 2024
Spoon Theory and Autism
At Spectrum, we find Spoon Theory helpful to explain why so many of the Autistic children and young people we see appear to ‘keep it...
May 17, 2024
Acceptance, Inclusion and Bakewell Tarts (all the best things!)
We loved this post on social media from Spectrum Sloth so much that we wanted to share it. It’s a perfect example of how the small,...
May 13, 2024
But what does Autism actually look like?
It can be incredibly frustrating for parents, carers and young people themselves when they are beginning to question whether they might...
Apr 29, 2024
Infinity symbols and autism
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that our Spectrum logo is a rainbow infinity symbol, but why did we choose this and how is it...
Apr 18, 2024
World Autism Acceptance Week
World Autism Acceptance Week was at the beginning of April and there was so much helpful information being shared on socials about how to...
Apr 15, 2024
A great review!
"Would highly recommend this company. Everyone involved in my teenage daughter’s assessment was very professional and happy to answer all...
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