On this page, you will find autism blog posts covering areas such as how to support autistic adults, as well as some of our guides. Find links to some of our posts, guides and resources right here!
How Autism AIM’s Peer-Led Groups Stand Alongside You
For Advocacy Awareness Week 2025 (13th-17th October), we are looking at how our peer-led groups stand alongside autistic adults who attend them. Going back to 2017, we have run at least one regular peer-led group [...]
#AIMiversary: Our achievements over the last 10 years
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. [...]
Autism and Sensory Overload: My Personal Coping Strategies
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, [...]
Our self-advocacy tools: How and why we made them
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 [...]
How the Mental Health Access Project can help you
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 [...]
Mental Health Equity Project: Training advocates to work with autistic adults
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 [...]
