Awards Archives - Scottish Women's Autism Network

July 7, 2018

Head above the Parapet

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 […]

July 7, 2018

Scottish Social Services Award for SWAN

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 […]

August 2, 2016

SWAN Shortlisted for National Diversity Awards!

SWAN are absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for a National Diversity Award! A huge thanks to everyone who nominated us. We are in the Community […]

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SWAN: Scottish Women's Autism Network

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Looking forward to this! Cat@Swan ...

Autism & Education - an event by SARG

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This is a one-day academic seminar on the theme of autism and education. Speakers include: Catriona Stewart (Scottish Autism/Scottish Women’s Autism Network), Sue Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh), and Alastair Clarkson (Scottish Autism). Talks cover a range of topics of relevance to educa...

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SWAN: Scottish Women's Autism Network

1 day ago

We had another amazing day in the Woodlands as part of our SWAN: Under our Wing Peer Mentoring Programme. This time we brought the mentor & the mentee groups together for a day of crafting, bushcraft & team building activities. A big thank you to Craig, of Operation Play Outdoors, our trainer, and to The Forestry Commission Scotland for ongoing support. Our day was described by one of our group as "magical mentoring". rony@swan ...

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SWAN: Scottish Women's Autism Network

2 days ago

What happened here was a tragedy and yes, there needs to be a full account made. Cas@Swan ...

Judicial reviews

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Former staff of the school are seeking judicial reviews of the decisions by the Care Inspectorate to impose an Improvement Notice on the school, and the demands made by the Registrar of Independent School in a letter to the Chairmen of Governors in November 2018. Given that their actions led to the

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SWAN: Scottish Women's Autism Network shared Ryan Hendry's post.

2 days ago

We've been having some very interesting chat around possible overlaps with ADHD and autism - so many of us with an autism diagnosis or who identify as autistic, seem to relate to descriptions of ADHD too. Cat@Swan ...

Ryan

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-47297417

Even though I got my ADHD diagnosis at a very young age, as an adult, aside from my medication and a 6 month doctors appointment, I get absolutely nothing in the way of support.

ADHD is still perceived as something that only affects kids, and a lot of people out there still don’t even believe it exists, that it is the result of “poor parenting”, “lack of discipline”, etc etc.

Without my medication, I’m literally useless, I can’t get anything done, I can’t focus, I can’t sit still, I cannot concentrate at all, even simple things like making food become an extremely demanding and mentally challenging task.

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SWAN: Scottish Women's Autism Network shared FIGS-Fighting Inequality for Girls on the Spectrum Campaign Page's post.

5 days ago

I think this is beautiful and it does so resonate with the passion I feel Cat@SwanThis was written by a member who wants to remain anonymous. ...

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