Alex Lowery speaks about autism

Category: Social Skills

  • 19.04.21

    Why is it difficult to process information?

    Sometimes I do have a hard time processing what people say to me. If someone gives a lot of detail when talking, I may have hard time remembering all that was said. I do struggle to process information. I also...

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  • 22.02.17

    Are people with Aspergers/autism chatterboxes or super quiet?

    There are people who have rather fixed ideas as to how talkative or quiet a person on the autism spectrum is. In this article, I will be writing about this. I will also be discussing what has sometimes been believed...

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  • 27.10.16

    Autism and Child’s Play

    Today’s article will be focussed more on Children than it will be on adults with autism. I particularly want to focus on the angle of how children with autism ‘play’. It is often said that children on the autistic spectrum...

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  • 18.04.16

    Teaching road safety to my son with autism : What I would do differently now

    I have been reading team meeting notes from Alex home based programme. I thought it might be helpful to share some of the problems that arose and how they were dealt with. This week I am going to talk about road safety. Road safety was...

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  • 29.01.16

    Are people with autism unsociable?

    Today I am going to be tackling the question, “Are people with autism unsociable?” I think this is a rather important subject to write about. I frequently hear from the general public that autistic people are simply “unsociable” people. Before...

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  • 10.12.15

    Autism and social media

    This December Ambitious about autism has created a digital advent Calendar. They will post about a different person with a connection to autism each day for 25 days. You can view the calendar here. I wrote a blog for them...

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  • 12.10.15

    Why are social rules complicated for a person with autism?

    It is well known that the world can be a very complicated place for a person with autism. It can be especially complicated when it comes to picking up social cues, body language, tone of voice and general social rules...

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  • 12.09.15

    10 reasons why being a teen with autism is so hard.

    I have spent the last week on a home educator’s camp. I went with my family. I have been in an adult world for a few years now as a public speaker but being back in this environment reminded me...

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Organisations Alex has worked with

  • Autism Cymru
  • Chester University
  • Glyndwr University
  • National Autistic Society
  • St John's Ambulance
  • Welsh Government

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