It includes:
- General information about autism
- Information about typical autistic experiences, including challenges autistic people might face in their everyday lives
- Ideas for helpful strategies
- A directory of resources and services
- Contributions from autistic people and their families
The information we provide is aimed at:
- Autistic adults
- Parents, carers, and allies of autistic people of all ages
- Professionals working with autistic people of all ages
Information for autistic children and young people is housed on our affiliated websites here:
When creating content for Autism Space we do our best to use the most accurate and up to date evidence.
We also take a neuro-affirmative approach. This means we favour the ethos that autism is a natural part of human diversity and believe autistic people should be treated with the same levels of respect and compassion as anyone else.
Our team of content creators includes:
- healthcare professionals with experience of working with autistic people of all ages – plus their families and carers
- people with lived experience of autism
- people with lived experience of parenting autistic and neurodivergent children
We keep up to date with the latest in NHS England endorsed training such as the Oliver McGowan Training and the National Autism Trainer Programme.
Click here to find out more about Oliver McGowan training
Click here to find out more about the National Autism Trainer Programme
Such training is co-produced and co-delivered by autistic people. It is based on the Core Capabilities Framework for Supporting Autistic People.
You can find out more about this by clicking this link
This training emphasises that when working to support autistic people, it is vital to not only refer to current, robust medical and academic research – but to also consider the experiences, knowledge, and views of autistic people themselves.
This is why we collaborate with healthcare professionals who work with autistic people across the lifespan – and most importantly, we collaborate and co-produce with autistic people. As part of this, Leicestershire Partnership Trust invest in autistic experts by experience, lived experience partners. If this is something that interests you, click this link.
On Autism Space, we share links to other resources and organisations that in good faith, we believe may be helpful.
We do our best to check the quality of these. However, we are not responsible for the content or actions of other resources or organisations and cannot guarantee the accuracy and reliability of what they say or do. Please use your judgment when accessing these.
We try our best to deliver the content that is the most useful for our local autistic population and their families, carers, and allies. We also welcome feedback and submissions.
Items in Nothing About Us Without Us and Voices of Families, Carers and Allies have been submitted by local autistic people and those who live with, work with, or support autistic people.
If you would like to:
- share your views about Autism Space
- share ideas for future content
- submit a contribution to Nothing About Us Without Us
- submit a contribution to Voices of Families, Carers and Allies
please text us at ChatAutism on:
07312 277097
Please note that we cannot guarantee to display all submissions. All items we upload are only approved following review at a content meeting, attended by healthcare professionals, content creators and experts by experience.
