Autism part 2

The purpose of today’s session is to learn about:

• The importance of the environment
• Sensory sensitivities
• Self-regulatory behaviours
• Intersectionality with race, sex, gender
• Alexithimia and how to learn to identify emotions
• Executive functioning and monotropism
• The spikey profile and autistic strengths
• Masking
• Meltdown
• Burnout
• Autism thriving strategies
• Legal rights and Reasonable Adjustments