https://vimeo.com/332500702 Interview with Dr Catriona Stewart at the National Autistic Society Professional Conference in 2019. Catriona discusses Under our Wing, a peer mentoring project for autistic women and girls which is being delivered in partnership with SWAN.
Article in the Herald Scotland Read this article in the Herald about our outdoor workshops, organised by SWAN and Scottish Forestry which aim to give participants skills to go on to mentor, encourage and support other women with autism.
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...
Great article from a late-diagnosed Australian autistic woman this week:
"Autism isn't just a medical diagnosis, it is part of our identities, and when autistic people ask you to go the extra mile in learning about and understanding how we think differently, we’re not asking for anything we haven’t done for allistic people all our lives"
'At 47, I discovered I am autistic – suddenly so many things made sense'
www.theguardian.com
Other people’s lives always seemed more effortless, but it took my daughter’s autism diagnosis to realise why
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Had our attention brought to this:
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Autistic Parents UK is a non-profit unincorporated association set up by a group of Autistic parents. Our vision is to build a collaborative community offering a range of no-cost, accessible options of mutual peer support for Autistic parents in the UK.Please do ask any questions you have on my presentation for SWAN on Inclusive working practices and Human Rights or my conversation with John Scott QC on the work of the Independent Advisory Group to the Scottish Police Authority during COVID Cat@SwanThe Eighth Annual Strategy for Autism Conference team will be live streaming a Q & A session with selected speakers via Facebook on Friday 30th October at 1.00pm.
If you have any comments or questions on any of the conference presentations which you wish answered , please send them to autism.network@strath.ac.uk (FAO Lesley Evans), no later than midday on Friday 23rd October.
