by Shelley Farnham | Apr 9, 2024 | Autism
What does Autism Acceptance Week mean to you? To me it’s an opportunity to spread some awareness of Autism – our knowledge and also our personal experience, recognising and celebrating the good, whilst also acknowledging the not so good. Getting this balance is...
by Shelley Farnham | Mar 14, 2024 | Autism
Autism Parent Support: Navigating the Journey Together Parenting a child with autism is a unique journey that can bring both profound joy and significant challenges. While focusing on the needs of their autistic child, parents often encounter their own set of...
by Shelley Farnham | Mar 14, 2024 | Executive functions
Executive Function Support Strategies: A Guide for Parents Executive functions are crucial cognitive skills that help us plan, organise, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. For children with ADHD and Autism, challenges with these skills are...
by Shelley Farnham | Mar 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Becoming a mother can be exciting and exhilarating, but also terrifying and exhausting. It changes your identity and can add layers to your life that you love, but at times can strip you of your sense of who you are and where you fit in. Being the mother of a child...
by Shelley Farnham | Feb 4, 2024 | Emotion regulation
5 steps to nurture emotion regulation and literacy in our family and beyond When we see our child showing anger, sadness and all those other ‘less desirable’ emotions, we are naturally primed to respond to help them, to want to make them feel better and to take away...
