What is Autism

Both ADHD and Autism are neurodevelopmental conditions. This means they relate to how someone’s brain developed and they are both lifelong conditions.

What is Autism?

Autism effects the way a person communicates and interacts with other people and how they see the world around them. Autistic people’s brains work differently to non-autistic people’s brains.

Traits of Autism can include:

• Differences with verbal and non-verbal communication. This can manifest itself in ways such as struggling to pick up on tone of voice or missing physical cues; delayed speech or lack of speech; repetition of words or phrases (echolalia) or perhaps being very talkative.
• Differences with social interaction. These can include finding it difficult to understand what other people are feeling or what they mean and difficulty in the development of play and imagination.
• A need for routine and repetition which can present in ways such as these: needing things to stay the same every day; finding changes difficult; repetitive movements such as hand flapping or spinning an object round.