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Gina Davies, a very experienced Speech and Language Therapist spoke at the Medica CPD Autism Conference yesterday.  She has a deep understanding of Autism and works very closely with parents in putting into place effective interventions.  She has a website which has some great video resources on the following topics:

Behaviour – Let’s Tackle some!

Food – Let’s Eat some!

Toilets – Let’s flush some!

The videos are available to download for a small cost of £7.

Luke Beardon, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield also presented at the conference.  He had good information about managing obsessions and rituals.  Here is an overview:

PASSIONATE INTERESTS

They can be socially inappropriate

Need boundaries … It’s okay to have them but restriction of activity is required

Parents/Carers should recognise that obsessive behaviours can be used as coping mechanisms.