Back Issues
Issue 1: Spring 2011
Featuring:
- Research into the connection between autism and mitochondrial dysfunction
- Fast ForWord, a language and reading program, is having great results with some children on the spectrum
- A diet for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder that may work with ASD children as well
- Dogs that are transforming the lives of children with autism
Issue 2: Summer 2011
Featuring:
- A Harley Street sensory integration expert answers questions that worry parents
- Inside Treetops, a world-renowned Verbal Behaviour school
- Dr Daniel Goyal on the chronic toxicity seen in children with autism
- Bullying: how to handle it
- How to make flying with your child easier
Issue 3: Autumn 2011
Featuring:
- The link between sore throat bug Streptococcus and obsessions
- What to do when your child has a meltdown
- Stress and stimming: tips from our Harley Street specialist
- What’s the best teaching environment? Spot problems in schools
- Ball game that makes a difference to learning
Issue 4: Winter 2011/12
Featuring:
- What’s wrong with autism research – and an inspirational exception
- Dr Daniel Goyal on calming overactive fight-or-flight responses
- Therapy that could help non-verbal children develop speech
- Carry out sensory integration at home using simple equipment
Issue 5: Spring 2012
Featuring:
- What’s the best diet for a child with autism?
- Pioneering tactics to encourage speech
- Autism-friendly technology to develop reading
- Ground-breaking interactive toys and technology to aid play
- Sensory Clinic, best books & health professionals’ advice
Issue 6: Summer 2012
Featuring:
- Havens or hell? Potential problems of ‘quiet rooms’
- Tips on gluten-free diets
- Boost skills with the best apps
- Remarkable mother-and-son journey with CEASE therapy
- Help with adolescence
- One boy’s inspiring story with biomedical intervention
- How to get your child surfing
Issue 7: Autumn 2012
Featuring:
- How to handle fussy eating
- A mum’s inspirational story of treating her child with hormones
- Intensive Interaction: therapy you can carry out anywhere
- Ditch the psychotropic drugs: why they’re wrong if children display aggressive behaviour
- The transformative effect of interacting with animals
- Double-whammy to help sleep issues
Issue 8: Winter 2012/13
Featuring:
- Is your child having undiagnosed - but treatable seizures?
- A teacher speaks out on children being forced into a ‘safe’ room
- Primitive reflexes: a piece of the puzzle
- Why ICT teaching lets down talented pupils
- Sledging and skating ideas
- Gluten-free recipes
- Serious fun with Floortime therapy
Issue 9: Spring 2013
Featuring:
- Pathological Demand Avoidance: spot the signs
- When school becomes too much, is flexischooling the answer?
- Beginners’ guide to biomedical testing
- Integrated Listening Therapy’s movement-and-music approach
- How gardening can boost your child’s development
- Breakthroughs in understanding and treatment
- Switch on to video modelling to build skills
Issue 10: Summer 2013
Featuring:
- Speaking out: politicians on the abuse of chill-out rooms
- Detox the natural way
- Zip up your holiday preparations with our guide to camping
- How the Association Method boosts language learning
- Mind control: the potential of neurofeedback therapy
- Navigate the challenges through adolescence
Issue 11: Autumn 2013
Featuring:
- How HANDLE therapy may open doors to higher functioning
- Trade and tested: businesses that teach real-world skills
- Natural remedies to treat the effects of inflammation
- Pick up tips on pica to stop obsessive chewing and eating
- Dive into the challenge of teaching your child to swim
Issue 12: Winter 2013/14
Featuring:
- Four-step fix: help your child to answer questions
- Good riddance: tackle harmful gut parasites
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: how useful is it?
- Glide with pride: boost self-confidence with skiing
- Experts choose the best computer apps
- Ways to improve your child’s education
Issue 13: Spring 2014
Featuring:
- Help boost your child’s literacy skills
- 10 signs of nutritional deficiency
- Parents victimised for requesting support
- Why stem cell therapy may be a costly con
- How you can help your child with social skills
- Calm anxieties with relaxing Reiki
Issue 14: Summer 2014
Featuring:
- Using ABA therapy to ease dental trips
- Exclusive: Temple Grandin on unlocking success
- How drama can produce gains
- Ingredients to avoid in your child’s food
- Could Pivotal Response Treatment help?
- Selective mutism, regressive autism and more…
Issue 15: Autumn 2014
Featuring:
- Advice on choosing the best school
- Does your child need anger therapy?
- Improve fine motor issues and dressing skills
- What it’s like to be a sibling of a child with ASD
- Lego therapy’s help with social interaction
- Fear of food: a pioneering school’s approach
Issue 16: Winter 2014/15
Featuring:
- Gut issues and the autism link
- Verbal dyspraxia: recognise the signs
- Technology tips: the best apps to explore
- Advice on achieving social inclusion
- How to teach theory of mind
- Could art therapy help your child?
Issue 17: Spring 2015
Featuring:
- Grandparents: help or hindrance?
- Therapy for conversation skills
- Vitamin D and why it matters
- How to de-escalate meltdowns
- Accessing support for long summer days
- How to stop the pica habit
Issue 18: Summer 2015
Featuring:
- The ‘R’ word: is ‘recovery’ possible?
- Diagnosed youngster becomes surf dude
- Run an affordable, part-time ABA programme
- Strategies that help progress in adolescence
- Apps to build functional skills
- Calming effects of Functional Reflex Therapy
Issue 19: Autumn 2015
Featuring:
- Refrigerator Mother theory: at a pediatrician near you?
- Draw a line under stress-fuelled blood tests
- Fermented food tips to lower social anxiety
- Apps to boost reading and writing skills
- Not whiter than white: watch out for dangerous MMS bleach drink
- Advice on helping children to cope with big transitions in their life
Issue 20: Winter 2015/16
Featuring:
- What is genetic research doing to help us?
- Therapeutic benefits of martial arts
- Could your child have little-known but common Pyrrole disorder?
- Massage as medicine: the ancient arts of tui na and shiatsu
- Winners are loo users: a practical programme for toilet training
- Fabulous and fun: four pages of sensory gift ideas
Issue 21: Spring 2016
Featuring:
- Drugs galore: in search of alternatives to medication
- Power of parents: families share experiences of treating children’s health issues
- Just the job: pioneering social enterprises that offer employment
- Feel-good factor: new approach to treating problems with touch
- Lyme disease: causes, symptoms and possible links to autism
- Teach self-help skills to create independence
Issue 22: Summer 2016
Featuring:
- Autism = exclusion: when school too often adds up to rejection
- The scandal of long-stay hospitals
- Spotlight on supported living
- Set up your own sensory gym
- Courses with horses: equine assisted therapy
- 10 supports that should be in every classroom
- Manage meltdowns while out shopping
- Dental trips made easier
- Tackle the roots of sensory issues
Issue 23: Autumn 2016
Featuring:
- Stop threats from the internet
- Fight the blight of high anxiety
- Spot and deal with auditory processing disorder
- Rapid Prompting Method and other communication therapies
- Out to stray: ways to beat wandering
- Help your child’s development using video modelling
- Schools and colleges that make the most of outdoor learning
- Research news
Issue 24: Winter 2016/17
Featuring:
- You’re hired: how apprenticeships are making a difference and enabling young people to excel
- Call to arms: parents battle respite cuts
- Special diets: what medics think of gluten and casein-free and other approaches
- The year’s brightest research projects
- The best new technology for the year ahead
- Wizard ways with drawing: a young artist finds a fan in Gandalf
- Could you adopt or foster?
- Five pages of fabulous festive gifts
Issue 25: Spring 2017
Featuring:
- GUT HEALTH FOCUS, including advances in:
- Faecal transplants
- Eating disorders
- Free-from foods
- Probiotics
- Nutrition
- Why the exam system needs to change
- Robot in the classroom: its ‘unthreatening simplicity’ helps unlock communication
- Questions of gender identity
- Initiatives to help individuals with ASD get about by themselves
Issue 26: Summer 2017
Featuring:
- Is there hope in dope? Shining a light on cannabis research
- Special schools’ success with transitions
- Advice on benefits
- Could hypnotism help?
- Natural treatments for the common issue of constipation
- How ABA can support teachers
- Why police and prisons need more empathy
- Trouble with transport? Don’t get caught by local authorities acting illegally
- Why omega-3 and 6 dietary supplements may help to tackle ADHD
Issue 27: Autumn 2017
Featuring:
- No sign of real change: education, health and care plans are as conflict-ridden as the system they replaced
- Artism: how art can be a lifeline for some, as well as a means of self-expression, communication and socialising
- Spotlight on performance: the benefits of drama, dance and music
- Buy a home for your child’s supported future
- Histamine intolerance: spot the symptoms and learn about dietary remedies
- Could your child go drug-free? Families share their experiences
- Expert advice on creating a special sensory space at home
- One mother’s inspiring story of learning the skills of social success and friendship
Issue 28: Winter 2017/18
Featuring:
- Stranded: ‘Failing’ NHS casts our children adrift – says a doctor
- ABA for adults: how Applied Behaviour Analysis is helping to develop real-life skills
- Speech therapy inspired by a revelatory moment when a non-verbal boy sang
- Could mental health counselling help?
- Set up your own social club
- How to choose the right school
- Can hormones cause regression in adolescence?
- Nutritional advice for boosting wellbeing to tackle sensory difficulties
- Festive gifts galore: four pages of brilliant therapeutic goodies
Issue 29: Spring 2018
Featuring:
- Scandal of classrooms run by unqualified assistants instead of teachers
- Stop the abuse: how can we stamp out bullying in care homes?
- Teachers share strategies for keeping pupils calm and focused
- Are enzymes effective as a treatment for gut-related issues?
- Make a success of independent living – and avoid pitfalls
- Great escapes: active holidays that everyone in the family can enjoy
- How yoga can promote calmness and help sensory difficulties
Issue 30: Summer 2018
Featuring:
- Let down yet again: special education reforms fail another generation
- Brains on fire: focus on ‘immune subtype’ of autism and how it affects the brain
- Transitions into the world of work
- Autism, adolescence and chronic anxiety: three ways to encourage calmness
- How families can use Social Stories to explain real-life situations
- In the shadow of fear: claims of families being victimised for asking for help
- Success with home education
- Getting help for self-injury
- Developments in the ABA approach
Issue 31: Autumn 2018
Featuring:
- Autism and girls: research finds symptoms increase with age
- Why the NHS must change: mum Paula McGowan’s fight to ensure medical staff have autism training
- Three experts on ways to encourage empathy
- How the arts can boost social skills and emotional development
- Ways that schools and parents can encourage success in exams
- Food refusal: get expert advice
- Could you foster a child with ASD?
- Expert legal advice on Education, Health and Care plans
- 10 tips for successful family outings
Issue 32: Winter 2018/19
Featuring:
- Dads on diagnosis – and beyond: fathers talk candidly about their views
- How to spot ‘camouflaged’ girls on the spectrum and help them flourish at school
- How parents can retain legal rights when their child reaches 18
- Injustice of special educational needs and disability tribunals
- Hottest research projects of 2019
- Reduce children’s problems with sleeping
- How TAGteach aims to help children acquire social and play skills
- Overcome toilet-training troubles
Issue 33: Spring 2019
Featuring:
- Take a leaf from Forest Schools: learning that grows naturally
- Is your child’s school ‘autism friendly’? Use our checklist
- Tips on boosting everyday living skills
- Nutritional support: heal gut problems
- In the front line of research: it’s shockingly underfunded but promising
- Diagnosis as a mid-life adult: four people open up about their experiences
- Stem cell treatments: hope or hype?
- Vaccine debate heats up
- Improve socialisation with Lego Therapy
- Spotlight on the failure of long-stay hospitals
Issue 34: Summer 2019
Featuring:
- Sport special: ideas, strategies and a call for school revolution
- New technology to boost independent living
- Attack anxiety: fresh help for stress
- Cannabis treatment: boy gets relief from seizures
- How a mum and her son control his personal budget for education
- Get set for chilled-out excitement at relaxed theatre and music performances
- Families fight to tighten the law on the use of restraint in schools
Issue 35: Autumn 2019
Featuring:
- Gut healing: faecal transplant study results step up pressure for more treatments
- Equipment and strategies for overcoming difficulties with communication
- A mum and a dad share experiences of being their child’s sole support
- Ideas for no-stress gluten-free school lunch boxes
- How to spot eyesight problems and get your child tested
- Advice for navigating the justice system in times of crisis
- Parents take control of safeguarding to catch bad carers
Issue 36: Winter 2019
Featuring:
- Homes not hospitals: is it too much to ask?
- Gut trouble? Italian doctor’s inside view
- Question time: help your child to respond
- No way to win: the problem of gaming addiction
- Hard to beat: the power of music for teaching and therapy
- Tips for surviving seasonal stress
- Four pages of great gift ideas
- Delicious gluten-free festive food
- Relaxed pantos, musicals, ballet and Strictly Come Dancing
Issue 37: Spring 2020
Featuring:
- Holidays designed for you
- Don’t take away our therapy: parents who say ABA helps their child, versus the neurodiversity movement
- How mums and dads find like-minded support when friends and family fade away
- Injustice of school funding for special educational needs
- Success stories in teaching outside
- Are oxalates in food causing problems for your child?
Issue 38: Summer 2020
Featuring:
- Let down in lockdown: from shopping to support, families fight against injustice
- Mental health care: manage the positives, seize the negatives
- Understand Pathological Demand Avoidance
- Learning with Lego Therapy
- Foods to help sleep, stress and snacking – and boost the body’s immune system
- How young people on the spectrum can be helped to handle big-life transitions
Issue 39: Autumn 2020
Featuring:
- Wishing for answers: families welcome new NHS research centre
- Who cares for the carers? Should you get paid to care? PLUS grants for carers
- Taking the holistic approach: schools that provide stress-free learning
- Could it be PANS or PANDAS? Learn about two conditions with symptoms often seen in autism
- Food for health: how diet can play a huge role in managing debilitating conditions that can accompany autism
Issue 40: Winter 2020
Featuring:
- The blood-brain barrier in focus: latest research into the role of the immune system
- Why health is an issue: the links between autism and other conditions
- SEN experts on using dance, art and music to combat anxiety
- The benefits of bringing dogs into schools – with expert dos and don’ts
- Ready for appier times? Ingenious apps and websites
Issue 41: Spring 2021
Featuring:
- Gut and nutrition focus: with tips on improving mental health
- Tackle anxiety by understanding its underlying causes
- The mind’s best friend: research finds that gut cells protect the brain and may be involved in autism development
- Advice on will writing to avoid all-too-easy pitfalls
- Learning that’s lighthearted: school and college strategies for lowering students’ stress levels
Issue 42: Summer 2021
Featuring:
- Which therapy should you use? Parents give their verdict
- Create your own sensory room
- Is your child a picky eater? How to resolve the problem
- Why is there no compensation if you win a case for discrimination in education?
- Focus on the role of vision in sensory processing
- Transitions to employment: working for workplace success
- Women and autism: why it’s different
- How to talk to your child about bereavement
Issue 43: Autumn 2021
Featuring:
- ADHD: how to make dramatic improvements
- Choose the right school, college or supported living provision
- PLUS: find the latest ones to open in your area
- Life after an ATU: how moving into the community can be successful
- Parent power: a call to fight institutionalised abuse by social services
- Not so sweet: the problem with low blood sugar levels
- Your legal rights in dealing with poorly trained police officers
- Turning around the devastation of school exclusion
Issue 44: Winter 2021
Featuring:
- Teachers share their expertise on personal, social, health and economic education
- Spot the signs of gastrointestinal troubles
- Let us entertain you: eight pages of fabulous relaxed shows across the UK for all the family
- Take the heat out of an impending meltdown
- Science and therapy, based on creating a sense of safety
- Overgrown neurons and hyperactive brains: medical insight into a subset of autism
- Fun with seasonal gift ideas
- Pick of the new books
Issue 45: Spring 2022
Featuring:
- Solutions for sensory issues: eight-page special on tackling children’s difficulties
- Exposed: councils that bully parents who ask them for help
- Go outside: how open air boosts learning
- Could food be making your child anxious?
- Ready for a getaway? Fabulous holidays from the UK to the USA and even the Arctic Circle
- Left fighting on all fronts: families struggle to cope with slashed services
- Why screening for health conditions should run alongside diagnosis
- Could food be making your child anxious?
Issue 46: Summer 2022
Featuring:
- Ditch the toxic treats: the most harmful foods and healthy alternatives
- Why we need multidisciplinary health care
- Could your child have auditory processing disorder?
- How to spot and handle verbal dyspraxia
- Success with transitions to adulthood
- Will legal reform close long-stay hospitals?
- Why police officers can feel intimidated and inadequate
- Educational benefits of innovative and practical crafts
Issue 47: Autumn 2022
Featuring:
- In reach of home ownership: set up your child’s future
- Parents reveal how they are managing under growing pressure
- Moves to increase Carer’s Allowance from just £67.90 a week
- Could there be a treatment to turn down overwhelming anxiety?
- How music, drama, art and dance can be used therapeutically
- Tackle health issues that may lead to aggression
- New schools, colleges and supported living sites
Issue 48: Winter 2022
Featuring:
- Spotlight on dire autism research
- Why we need a diagnosis of profound autism
- Legal advice on an alternative to school
- How to spot the common deficiency of iron and redress the balance
- When sociability is disrupted, can it be reversed?
- Dame Stephanie Shirley on why she donated her son’s brain for research
- Relaxed panto and film shows galore
- Great gift ideas with therapeutic benefits
Issue 49: Spring 2023
Featuring:
- How the internet can lead to offending
- In search of a diagnosis? Get expert advice
- A medical view of profound autism: why those with the greatest health problems need a way to be properly identified
- Supported holiday ideas full of fun, from East Sussex to South Carolina
- Benefits of outdoor education
- Top 10 health-building nutrients
- Two routes to creating a secure home for a grown-up son or daughter
Issue 50: Summer 2023
Featuring:
- Abandoned: why some on the spectrum are demanding better mental health care
- Advice for getting into work
- How craft lessons boost self-esteem
- What food cravings mean
- 4 pages of training courses to put you in control
- How your home can make your child sick
- Internet safety: beware of illegal photo sharing
- How organisations with a neurodivergent workforce can enjoy a competitive advantage
Issue 51: Autumn 2023
Featuring:
- Special guide to 19 therapies, including the thinking behind them
- What is an autism-friendly classroom?
- One school’s blueprint for ending pupil restraint
- Research into the magical moments of being ‘in sync’
- New schools, colleges and supported living sites
- Afflicted by anxiety? Understand the causes
- Study finds carer support has got worse since the pandemic
- Spot skin issues and treat them
- Stories of the mental and physical cost of caring
Issue 52: Winter 2024
Featuring:
- Special 7-page guide to fabulous relaxed shows across the UK
- Trauma, the unwelcome companion
- Stand up to sneaky discrimination
- Why Stateside science leads the way
- Ideas for positive PSHE lessons, including the value of decompression
- Why mainstream schools need a drastic overhaul, by a college principal
- Positive moves for research into the little-known conditions of PANS and PANDAS
- Understanding and teaching theory of mind
- Super seasonal gift ideas
Issue 53: Spring 2024
Featuring:
- Locked in: the scandal of long-stay hospitals
- Supported living: parents create their own, near home
- Adults share experiences of gaining an autism diagnosis
- Financial costs of caring for an autistic child
- How to choose a therapy, plus parents’ advice
- Antipsychotics still used as a ‘chemical cosh’
- Promising research for severe autism treatments
- Disabled children missing out on free school meals
- Spotlight on a condition that can cause eczema, allergies and digestive issues
- Holidays that create lasting memories
Issue 54: Summer 2024
Featuring:
- Barriers to healthcare: reasons behind shocking health inequality
- What happens after 25? Sir Robert Buckland’s review and other initiatives
- Sensory fun in the sun: simple summer-themed ideas for children’s educational discovery
- Help improve skills in maths
- Why is my child having headaches?
- 3 alternative ways to boost reading
- Train up to help your child
- Transitioning into employment
- Ways to help with Pathological Demand Avoidance
- Parents’ stories of their adult child rejecting them
