June 2018 - Steph's Two Girls

Thursday, 21 June 2018

Ten things you need to know about Pathological Demand Avoidance

PDA Society Steph Curtis June 21, 2018

Our younger daughter, Sasha, is autistic. She was diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) at the age of two and a half, over eight ye...

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Saturday, 16 June 2018

Siblings {June 2018}

siblings Steph Curtis June 16, 2018

After an enforced break from this blog, I'm coming back with a very quick Siblings post. May and June are always busy months at home for...

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Saturday, 2 June 2018

FestABLE - a Festival of Specialist Learning

SEND Steph Curtis June 02, 2018

Today, I should have been somewhere else; FestABLE , a huge festival which aims to enable young people with disabilities to achieve better o...

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What is Autism?

'Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around them. People with autism have difficulties with everyday social interaction'.

What is PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)?

Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) is one of several Autistic Spectrum Conditions (also known as ASD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder). The central difficulty for people with PDA is their avoidance of the everyday demands made by other people, due to their high anxiety levels when they feel that they are not in control.

Children may sometimes be described as having 'challenging' or 'oppositional' behaviour. Parents describe life as 'walking on eggshells' and their child as 'Jekyll and Hyde'.