This November, the Autism AIM service is celebrating its’ 10th anniversary! To mark it, we are writing a series of blog posts, looking back at how we have progressed and what we have achieved. In this post, we reflect [...]
By Cate Riley, Communications Volunteer Assistant In this blog post, our volunteer Cate writes about her own experiences and ways of coping with sensory overload. Being autistic brings some strengths, but it can also present [...]
This week (Monday 14th-Friday 18th October) is Advocacy Awareness Week. The theme for this year is #AdvocacyWorks – how advocacy can help people to be heard and get their rights upheld. For this, we will be talking about our [...]
Since launching earlier this year, our Mental Health Access Project (MHAP) has been very busy. Whether doing one-to-one work with clients, planning in training sessions for mental health professionals in Leeds or undertaking sensory audits of community mental health [...]
Since the Autism AIM – Mental Health Equity Project launched around three years ago, one of the main parts of its’ work has been to provide autism awareness training for a range of professionals in West Yorkshire. This includes [...]
This April is Autism Acceptance Month. It was created many years ago to shine a light on autism and what autistic people go through, initially called Autism Awareness Month. More information about its origins can be found in a blog [...]
This April, you will probably have seen a lot of online content celebrating Autism Acceptance Month. At the same time, it’s possible that you might have come across social media posts and news articles marking Autism Awareness Month. It does [...]
To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2023 (13th-19th March), we in the Leeds Autism AIM team are putting together a list of useful resources about all things neurodiversity and neurodivergence. It includes blog posts, websites and videos, all suggested by [...]
In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion of the idea of neurodiversity. Much of it has been positive, but with that has come more than a little confusion. What does it mean? Who does it cover? [...]
To mark Autistic Pride Day 2022 (Saturday 18th June), our Peer Development Worker Gill Loomes-Quinn has written a blog about what it means to her. Writing about her experience of doing her PhD, Gill covers topics such as tenacity and [...]
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