World Autism Day at Museum of Childhood

A couple of Stepney Partnership families visited the Museum of Childhood today for World Autism Awareness Day. There were lots of information stalls and families took part in workshops including Storytelling and Art & Play with Mindbuilders.

Parents and Autistic Children

Families from across the partnership primary schools had a wonderful time at the get-together for parents and autistic children at Redlands School yesterday. Children and parents played together with lots of different toys, sang a song, made rainbow fruit kebabs and had snacks together.

Things went so well that we hope this will be the first of several parent/ children get togethers!

Support group for parents/carers for children with autism

We had the first meeting of the Stepney Partnership support group for parents/carers of children with autism this morning at Redlands. Around 12 parents from across the partnership schools attended which was a great start!

At the meeting Richie and Dani from National Autistic Society and Catherine McNerney from Phoenix outreach team talked about their work. Parents shared their views on what they wanted from the support group.

The next meeting is on Friday 30 September (9:30-11am) at Halley Primary School where Andru Kyle from Disabled Children’s Outreach Service will lead a discussion about how parents cope when their child is diagnosed with autism.

On Friday 4 October we will visit a Mindbuilders’ Parent Session led by Sibylle Janert – a psychologist with 16 years experience of working with families, young children and autism.