Autistically Speaking Training

One of Autistic UK’s main objectives is to educate those who support autistic people.

 

We want to share our own experiences, and the experiences of others, to illustrate what life is like for autistic people.  We feel that this is the best way to help shape the services provided to autistic people, because to truly understand what someone needs, you have to have some concept of how they feel and what their needs are.

There is some irony in that, very often, autistic people are not able to advocate for themselves at the time they need to tell you something.  This is because their needs are often around communication itself, and how they find it easiest to tell you about what they're going through. Just realising this is a good start as it creates awareness that something other than direct speech may be necessary either to communicate with the person in front of you, or to help them communicate with you.