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11 More Autism Friendly Towns Announced With SuperValu

By Ian Lynam / September 19, 2019 September 19, 2019 / Autism, Autism Friendly Town, Community Support, Featured News

AsIAm is happy to today announce an additional 11 towns on the journey to becoming autism-friendly. This will advance our national campaign in partnership with SuperValu. The towns include Clane, Bray, Greystones, Wicklow Town, New Ross, Skerries, Lucan, Castlebar, Mallow, Listowel and Tralee. In conjunction with the announcement, a survey we conducted showed that presently, …

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Special Interests: Declan Murphy

By Ian Lynam / September 3, 2019 September 4, 2019 / Special Interests

Declan’s interests (like all of ours) are very diverse and it was hard to pick just one. However, he articulates special interests and there comforting nature so well, this seems like a good crash course. Any neurotpyicals hoping to understand how special interests function should give this a read. Hi, my name is Declan. I …

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Our Week Online 01/09/2019

By Ian Lynam / September 1, 2019 September 1, 2019 / Accessibility, Advocacy, Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, Mental Health, Our Week Online

Hello and welcome to Our Week Online. Apologies for the long gap since Eleanor’s final post. I’ve got very capable shoes to fill! It’s been something of a slow week in an otherwise jam-packed month. For a more comprehensive look at the news stay tuned for our newsletter tomorrow! Fota Park recently became the first …

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Fota Wildlife Park recognised for commitment to autism inclusion

By AsIAm.ie / August 27, 2019 August 28, 2019 / Featured News, Uncategorized

The attraction has been accredited by National Autism Charity as an example of best practise in accessibility Monday 26th August: Fota Wildlife Park, one of the country’s leading family attractions, yesterday received Autism-Friendly Accreditation from AsIAm, Ireland’s National Autism Charity. The award comes following a period of training and the development of tools and …

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Special Interests: Napoleon and his Autistic Traits- Cormac O’Brien

By AsIAm.ie / August 26, 2019 August 28, 2019 / Special Interests

The media depicts different people who have autism as being strange or weird. In my view I see it as people who experience the world differently, Some Doctors state that you are naive if you have autism but I disagree. One man who many people, myself included, think have the condition, is Napoloen Bonaparte. My …

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Community Voices: Autism and Bullying

By AsIAm.ie / August 23, 2019 August 28, 2019 / Autism, Behaviour, Communication, Community Support, Community Voices, Featured News, Parenting, Secondary School, Social Imagination, Social Interaction, Socialising

Hello all. If you haven’t seen our previous interview with Neil Kenny, I’d recommend checking it out. I was inspired to do something on bullying and autism due to the tragic suicide of Joel Langford. As well as expert insight such as Kenny’s, I wanted to demonstrate more personal accounts which stress the impact bullying …

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Aidan’s Snakebook

By Ian Lynam / August 3, 2019 August 3, 2019 / Community Voices, Parenting, Socialising, Teach Me As I Am

We had a guest in our offices last week who dropped in to show us the book he has been working on. This book is too good to keep to ourselves so we had to share it! It crucial that we encourage and support autistic people to embrace their special interests. Meet Aidan Aidan Foran …

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AsIAm and Supervalu’s Corporate Charity Partnership Earns Award

By AsIAm.ie / August 2, 2019 August 29, 2019 / Autism Friendly Town, Community Support, Featured News, Sensory, Supports, Video

Coming ahead of some stiff competition, AsIAm and Supervalu have won the Corporate Charity Partnership of the Year award. AsIAm and SuperValu have a strong partnership in supporting communities to become autism-friendly. Our partnership has seen the roll-out of Autism-Friendly Shopping in over 100 SuperValu stores across Ireland. This is supplemented with the development of …

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Kevin McLoughlin on University Societies as an Autistic Man

By AsIAm.ie / July 25, 2019 August 28, 2019 / Blog, College, Communication, Community Voices, Social Interaction

Hey everyone! I’m Kevin, I’m 19 years old, and I’m halfway through my first year exams in NUIG. This year has been wild and formative for me in so many important and meaningful ways but one I’m here to write about today is my social life. You see, most of you know that autistic …

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Our Week Online – 16/6/2019

By Eleanor Walsh / June 16, 2019 June 15, 2019 / Accessibility, Arts and Culture, Education, Family Life, Featured News, Our Week Online, Parenting

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Welcome to Our Week Online, and what a wet week it’s been. Dublin LGBTQ+ Pride has announced a number of new accessibility initiatives to make the Pride parade on June 29th more inclusive. They include a quiet area in Merrion Square’s Pride Village, a second assembly point for people who would like to participate in …

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