SWAN wins Scottish Social Services Award We arrived in Edinburgh from 6 different parts of Scotland all united by our pride in our identites as autistic women and swans. We represent the Scottish Women’s Autism Network (SWAN), each of us involved in varied capacities but all mutually invested in...
Head above the parapet award The recent nomination for the Scottish Social Services Awards held in the beautiful Mansfield Traquair in Edinburgh, was without a doubt a huge achievement for Scottish Women’s Autism Network (SWAN). Being given the visibility and recognition it deserves alongside some of the countries most...
Young SWANs speak Welcome to another new series – blog posts by our young SWANs. We are very excited to feature the voices of young autistic women. Our first young SWAN post comes from Jasmine Ghibli. I think we will see Jasmine’s writing a lot as an articulate activist...
The National Autism Project has recently published a series of short essays entitled ‘The future I’d like to see‘. SWAN Chair, Dr Catriona Stewart, who is also a member of the National Autism Project Advisory panel offered her own vision for the future. Dr Stewart identified four themes to...
