As part of our continued shared learning for parent/carers, today’s post addresses a commonly asked question to our Family Support and School Liaison team. School meetings can be daunting, whether your child is in early primary and the process is new, or you have been attending regular meetings for a while but have a young...

Within our Young Adult and Transition Support team we offer support through our weekly term social group as well as working on a 1:1 basis with the young people. We help develop many different independent life skills to enable them reach their full potential as they reach adulthood. One such life skill is Independent Travel,...

Winter – where do we begin?! The snowy season brings different challenges to some of our young people that we work with here at Perth Autism Support. End of term exhaustion, high social demand, changes to routines to name a few but the weather can also have an effect on our young people. Icy pavements,...

Life changes as we become teenagers the social demands, the academic demands and thinking about life after education can be a confusing, daunting and sometimes scary thought for young people. We work with autistic young adults who all have a range of different hopes, dreams and desires for their lives but very often they tell...

Through our funding from Perth & Kinross LEADER Programme, we have been able to take our training programmes out of Perth to Blairgowrie, Crieff and Highland Perthshire, here’s one of our fabulous parent, Nikki’s thoughts on the the training she has accessed and the benefits to having this in her local community of Blairgowrie “Hi...

My name is Hannah Anderson and you may recognise my friendly (I hope) face from the PAS Activities Team. Many of you reading this will be unaware that I have Autism. This has a huge impact on my day-to-day life, but to the vast majority of people, this isn’t obvious. I wasn’t diagnosed with Autism...

With the October holidays fast approaching, our Family Support Team have put together some top tips for planning a family day out or activity! Pack a sensory bag full of things that will help your young person, e.g. a favourite toy, ear defenders, fidget spinner, slimeUse appropriate visuals. This could be a detailed plan for...

Our Outreach programme brings our PAS services to the rural areas of Pitlochry and Aberfeldy, Crieff and Blairgowrie. Our purpose is to avoid social isolation of the young people and their families who struggle to make it to Perth to access services and ensure families across Perthshire have an equitable access to services. We are...

Today is National Fitness Day so what better day to tell you what our Young Adults have been up to lately, with funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Scotland and in partnership with local Community Interest Company, Scotland All-Strong. Young people aged 14 – 18 who are registered with Perth Autism Support have the...

People often ask us why we do what we do, and why our activities are different from other providers. So, as part of our blog series we will focus on each of our activities so we can explain what our aims and objectives of our programme are. Our activities programme is not just a play...