resources
We hope you won’t have to wait too long for your assessment and we don’t want you to feel unsupported during that time. We have collected some of our favourite resources and we hope you will find something of use among them. If you haven’t contacted us yet, you can email hello@pebbleautism.co.uk or call 07816 181 810. We’ll look forward to talking to you about your situation. You can also click for our FAQs.
for children and young people (autism)
Websites
Autism Understood is an amazing resource for young people with information about what autism really is and a focus on topics such as burnout, masking and meltdowns:
Books
- In The Secret Life of Rose, Rose Smitten and and her mum Jodie Clarke explore the autistic experience. This book is great for opening up a conversation about autism at any age. It is also a really helpful resource for helping members of the extended family understand what it can mean to be autistic.
TV
- A Kind of Spark on BBC iPlayer
Videos
- Great for younger children: Amazing Things Happen
for children and young people (Autism and ADHD: AuDHD)
Research suggests that up to 80% of autistic people also have ADHD. The AuDHD experience can be very different from just being autistic or just having ADHD. These websites help to explain about what it can be like for children and young people to have traits of both autism and ADHD:
Autism Understood is epic . There is lots and lots of information on their website about conditions that lots of autistic people have, including ADHD:
for parents
Websites
- For general info: Autism Understood
- In school: Possible help in the classroom
- For a huge amount of info on a range of topics, not just for girls: The Autistic Girls Network
- Meltdowns, Shutdowns and Burnout
- Courses on a range of subjects: Naomi Fisher
- A really helpful explanation of autism: Monotropism
Books
- Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Children by Luke Beardon
- The Explosive Child by Dr Ross Greene
Videos
- Talking to Grandparents
- The best theory of autism you’ve never heard of (monotropism): Youtube
for when someone is struggling to attend school/legal advice for EHCPs
Books
- In Can’t Not Won’t Eliza Fricker beautifully and movingly shares, through her wonderful line drawings, her experience of navigating, with her child, the experience of school avoidance and school trauma. With an afterword by Pebble’s Sue Moon, advising schools on how to support autistic pupils, with or without a diagnosis.
Websites
- Fantastic practical advice for parents, schools and young people: Not Fine in School
- Free independent advice: IPSEA
- An organisation providing advice and training: SOS!SEN
- Courses by Dr Naomi Fisher
for adults (autism)
Books
- In Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Adults and What Works for Autistic Adults Dr Luke Beardon sets out how the world can be safer and more joyful for autistic people.
- In Growing into Autism Sandra Thom-Jones explores the experience of realising you are autistic
Websites
- The Late Discovered Club is an online community and podcast that gives voice to late identified women and other marginalised groups: Late-discovered Club
- Ideas for support at work: Autistic Girls Network
- Designed for young people, we think this is one of the best all-round websites there is: Autism Understood
- Getting out of autistic burnout: Dr Alice Nicholls
Videos
- The best theory of autism you’ve never heard of (monotropism): YouTube
For women and people of other marginalised genders discovering their neurodivergence later in life
- Drama Queen by Sara Gibb
- Thumbsucker by Eliza Fricker
- The Late-discovered Club
- We love The Autistic Girl’s Network. They have lots of information and resources for women too Autistic Girls Network
For men discovering their neurodivergence later in life
- Autism Feels by Orion Kelly
- Untypical by Pete Wharmby
- Pete Wharmby on YouTube
for adults (ADHD)
Books
- In How to ADHD Jessica McCabe sets out ways of working with, rather than against your neurology.
- In The (Slightly Distracted) Woman’s Guide to Living With an Adult ADHD Diagnosis Laura Kerbey shares her own experience and that of other late-identified women with humour and compassion and the wonderful line drawings of Eliza Fricker.
Podcasts
- Hacking Your ADHD
- ADHD aha!
Websites
- Monotropism: a very useful theory to help understand ADHD
- ADHD Adult
- How to ADHD
Videos
- Jessica McCabe’s YouTube channel
for adults (autism and ADHD: AuDHD)
Research suggests that up to 80% of autistic people also have ADHD. The AuDHD experience can be very different from just being autistic or just having ADHD. These websites help to explain about what it can be like to have traits of both autism and ADHD:
We have found that many of our AuDHD clients have suffered from burnout. This blog addresses what what can be done to prevent this Embrace Autism
gender and LGBTQIA+
Websites
- The Autistic Girls network has a great range of resources that aren’t just for ‘girls’: Autistic Girls Network
- and Autistic Girls Network
- A blog on navigating the intersection of neurodiversity and LGBTQIA+ identity Neurolaunch
race and ethnicity
Websites
- Chinese Autism
- A parent blog about the intersection between blackness and being autistic
- An online support space: Black Autistic Meet-up
- If you cannot find what you need here try this extensive range of resources: Autistic Realms