Last week large numbers gathered in the International Bar for an evening hosted by CoMorbid Productions. Comorbid Productions is a newly founded Dublin art collective consisting of of artists affected by disability or mental health issues. Comorbid hosted a performance of short plays and extracts from longer works highlighting the voices of playwrights affected by …
Rebecca Hitchcock Martins is a Cork mother who was working in London she met her husband Hugo. Upon becoming pregnant with her son Charlie, the couple moved back to Ireland to give him the best chance possible. Charlie Hitchcock Martins received an autism diagnosis shortly before his third birthday. He is currently five years …
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We at AsIAm are pleased to announce our partnership with Specialisterne Ireland. Specialisterne Ireland is a not-for-profit recruitment consultancy funded by Ability. Its main goal is …
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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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
Special Interests: Napoleon and his Autistic Traits- Cormac O’Brien Read More »
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 …
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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