Ben Sidman

To get the most from playtime activities you have to stick to a set of rules. The rules may change according to the child but generally these rules help to achieve constructive play gaining the benefits listed above.Play it their way - Encourage...

There are a hundred reasons why you should organise yourself and your autistic child. But it was best put by the US writer, Florynce R Kennedy who said ‘Don’t agonize, organize.’ If you don’t organise yourself you are going to...

Travelling can be a great way to give your family a relaxing break or some new experiences. Travelling with children with social difficulties can be very difficult with all the changes of environment.

It was the great American Financer, Bernard Baruch that said “Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words” in other words, its not just what you say but the way that you say it.

There are many methods and therapies that have been shown to improve the symptoms of autism. However, at this point in time there is no single method that has been medically proven that will cure autism.

Promoting awareness can help people understand what autism is, how it affects people and appreciate that this is a condition that many people have. If everyone knew the symptoms, the behaviors and the way it affects others then autistic people...

Tantrums are never easy to deal with and push parents to their limits of patients. It often seems to be that parents of children with social difficulties have a harder job because tantrums are either more frequent, unpredictable or harder to bring...

Choosing a school for children with social difficulties is a very difficult task. Parents know that the school they chose will have a big impact on their child’s self-confidence, their ability to learn and their childhood experiences.