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Welcome to The Autism Mums Podcast — a supportive space for parents and carers navigating life with autistic children.We’re your hosts, Victoria and Natalie, two sisters raising autistic children.
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When School Feels Unsafe: Emotionally Based School Avoidance in Autistic Children (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Autism Mums Podcast, we're talking about EBSA: emotionally based school avoidance, sometimes called school distress or school anxiety. It's a term most parents only come across once things are already really difficult, when mornings have become impossible, your child is melting down before school, or they're holding it together in the classroom and falling apart the moment they get home. We share our own experiences of watching our children struggle to go in, the things we
Settling in to School (opens the original)
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Another school year, another round of settling in, and if the excitement wore off around day two, you are not alone. In this episode we get honest about what settling in to school really looks like for autistic children and their parents. Not the picture-book version, where everyone skips happily through the gates, but the version most of us actually live: the good days, the wobbly days, and the moments when the school says everything's fine and then your child falls apart the second they're bac
Growing up Autistic with Alex Richardson (opens the original)
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In this week’s episode of The Autism Mums Podcast we welcome Alex Richardson, ambassador for the National Autistic Society. Biography Alex Richardson is an ambassador for the National Autistic Society, a role he has held since 2018. Diagnosed with autism at five, Alex has become a passionate voice for autism awareness, sharing his life online. Key Takeaways Alex's parents trusted he would get there 'in his own way and his own time', and he credits this approach for his confidence today When Alex
Back to School: Anxious, Relieved, or Both? (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Autism Mums Podcast, we're talking about the new school year and everything that comes with it — for our children and for us. We share where we both are right now: one of us with a youngest starting mainstream school for the very first time, the other with one child going back to specialist school for what could be a final year and another moving into an EOTAS package that nobody can yet describe. We talk honestly about the anxiety that starts building in mid-August, the d
The Summer series: Practical Ways to Help Your Autistic Child with Daily Life (opens the original)
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We're re-releasing another episode from the archives this week where we talk about the practical ways we can help our autistic children with daily life. We’re sharing some of the things that have helped us make daily life a bit easier with our autistic children. From using timers and visual timetables to experimenting with tooth brushes and finding softer clothing. These are ideas that have worked for us, they might help you too, or simply offer reassurance that you’re not alone on this journey.
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