Autistic children and adolescents often struggle to understand and express emotions, resulting in high levels of anxiety, stress, anger and/or depression.

Conventional strategies that encourage emotion management for typical children do not seem to be as effective with autistic children. The child’s quality of life, self-esteem and well-being will be influenced by their ability to manage emotions, and difficulties with emotion management can lead to being suspended and having a notoriety that will affect the attitude of teachers and peers, as well as the attitude of the child to themselves.

Through several decades of working with autistic children and adolescents and their families and schools, Michelle and Tony have discovered, developed and evaluated emotion management strategies based on Mindfulness and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy that have proven to be effective in assisting autistic children to learn about, and manage, their emotions, from anxiety to love.

This event is part of a special autism training series in London by Tony Attwood and Michelle Garnett.