Autistic SLT

07/11/2025

🌟 I'm now taking bookings from January 2026 - I offer a range of speech and language therapy services for neurodivergent children, young people, and adults:

🗣️ Communication Assessments
💬 Therapy Sessions
💡 Advice Sessions for parents and carers
🤝 Professional consultations & supervision
📚 Training
🐻 Delivering the programme
🎯 I'm also trained in the Dyspraxia Programme (NDP3) for children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), also known as Verbal Dyspraxia

Website - www.autisticslt.com/speech-language-services-fees
Email - autisticslt@gmail.com

I offer a range of services including FREE therapy consultations, £75 per hour for professional consultations and supervision, bespoke training packages, £280 for adult communication assessments. Sliding scales for autistic people and families / charities.

04/11/2025

This is happening tonight! I’ll be critiquing the so called 'evidence-base' on Social Skills Training. I'll explore why it remains the number one intervention for Autistic children — despite growing evidence of its limitations.

🚨 Upcoming Webinar 🚨

"Deconstructing the evidence base: Social Skills Training for Autistic people"

📅 Tuesday 4th November 7pm (UK time)
💻 https://deconstructingsocialskills.eventbrite.co.uk
🎟️£25.00 Speech and Language Therapists / £10.00 general public (non-SLTs)

Social skills training (SST) has long been positioned as a “gold standard” intervention for Autistic children and young people. But how strong is the evidence? Whose outcomes are being measured—and whose voices are missing? This 1.5-hour webinar examines the research for social skills interventions, drawing on contemporary studies, ethical debates, and perspectives of Autistic people.

💠How did we get here? Addressing the historical context of SST
💠What is "evidence-based practice"?
💠Critiquing old theories of Autistic cognition e.g., Theory of Mind
💠Explore common outcome measures used in SST research
💠Critiquing the current evidence base for SST (specific studies)
💠Limitations of SST research
💠Ethical considerations: Does SST help or harm?
💠Contemporary, neurodivergent-affirming research
💠What do Autistic people actually want?

03/11/2025

And for my final one of the day!

The habituation cycle is known to not only NOT work for autistic people, but is known to be immensely damaging…… research shows this but even a basic AI google tells you this! So why this is being talked about in relation to EBSA without any caveat of “this is harmful to ND kids” is beyond me!!!

We do not habituate to environments that cause distress and overwhelm…. Why not? Because our brains tells us they aren’t safe. Why? Because they fu***ng aren’t!!

(Sorry, struggled with the non-sweary, “professional” approach with this one!)

I am so sick of hearing the same harmful information being delivered to parents. So many of us are vulnerable to believing this s**t, we are so brainwashed by the narrative that we are the problem, that “school is best” while we drag our child into these environments, that we know deep down they cannot manage and absolutely shouldn’t be forced to.

I am so exhausted, so many of us are working so hard to protect our children personally and professionally and then some “professional” comes along and feeds this to parents and professionals! DO BETTER!!

01/11/2025

Just 3 days to go 😊

🚨 Upcoming Webinar 🚨

"Deconstructing the evidence base: Social Skills Training for Autistic people"

📅 Tuesday 4th November 7pm (UK time)
💻 https://deconstructingsocialskills.eventbrite.co.uk
🎟️£25.00 Speech and Language Therapists / £10.00 general public (non-SLTs)

Social skills training (SST) has long been positioned as a “gold standard” intervention for Autistic children and young people. But how strong is the evidence? Whose outcomes are being measured—and whose voices are missing? This 1.5-hour webinar examines the research for social skills interventions, drawing on contemporary studies, ethical debates, and perspectives of Autistic people.

💠How did we get here? Addressing the historical context of SST
💠What is "evidence-based practice"?
💠Critiquing old theories of Autistic cognition e.g., Theory of Mind
💠Explore common outcome measures used in SST research
💠Critiquing the current evidence base for SST (specific studies)
💠Limitations of SST research
💠Ethical considerations: Does SST help or harm?
💠Contemporary, neurodivergent-affirming research
💠What do Autistic people actually want?

27/10/2025

🚨 Upcoming Webinar 🚨

"Deconstructing the evidence base: Social Skills Training for Autistic people"

📅 Tuesday 4th November 7pm (UK time)
💻 https://deconstructingsocialskills.eventbrite.co.uk
🎟️£25.00 Speech and Language Therapists / £10.00 general public (non-SLTs)

Social skills training (SST) has long been positioned as a “gold standard” intervention for Autistic children and young people. But how strong is the evidence? Whose outcomes are being measured—and whose voices are missing? This 1.5-hour webinar examines the research for social skills interventions, drawing on contemporary studies, ethical debates, and perspectives of Autistic people.

💠How did we get here? Addressing the historical context of SST
💠What is "evidence-based practice"?
💠Critiquing old theories of Autistic cognition e.g., Theory of Mind
💠Explore common outcome measures used in SST research
💠Critiquing the current evidence base for SST (specific studies)
💠Limitations of SST research
💠Ethical considerations: Does SST help or harm?
💠Contemporary, neurodivergent-affirming research
💠What do Autistic people actually want?

24/10/2025

Why Diagnosing Children with “Language Disorder” or “Social Communication Disorder” is problematic:

🔴 Normative Bias - Labelling Autistic communication as “disordered” assumes there is only one correct or normal way to communicate — the neurotypical one. This pathologises Autistic communication differences rather than recognising them as valid forms of expression.

🔴 Mismatch with Diagnostic Criteria - For a diagnosis of Language Disorder, a child must show significant and specific difficulties with syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, or working memory despite typical development in other areas. But Autistic development is not “typical” — especially for children who are Language Processors; their language development follows a different trajectory altogether.

🔴 Contextual Variability - Language and communication in Autistic children fluctuate depending on a range of factors, such as: fatigue, regulation state, attention/ flow, anxiety, cognitive load, and overwhelm. Treating these dynamic differences as fixed deficits misrepresents the child’s abilities.

🔴 Deficit Framing - These focus on what the child lacks compared to neurotypical norms, rather than recognising the meaningful ways Autistic children may use language to connect and communicate.

🔴 Lack of Research on Autistic Language Development - This has not been sufficiently studied. We simply don’t have the data to label it as “disordered.” Therefore, these diagnoses rely on incomplete or neurotypical-centric theories of communication.

🔴 Ignoring the Double Empathy Problem (Milton, 2012) - The so-called “social communication deficits” of may reflect reciprocal misunderstandings between Autistic and non-Autistic communicators. The Double Empathy Problem highlights that communication challenges are relational, not one-sided — meaning the problem lies in the interaction, not in the Autistic person alone.

This is why I don't do Social Skills Training. Join me for a deep-dive into the existing evidence-base - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1760044072199?aff=oddtdtcreator

🚨 Upcoming Webinar 🚨

"Deconstructing the evidence base: Social Skills Training for Autistic people"

📅 Tuesday 4th November 7pm (UK time)
💻 https://deconstructingsocialskills.eventbrite.co.uk
🎟️£25.00 Speech and Language Therapists / £10.00 general public (non-SLTs)

Social skills training (SST) has long been positioned as a “gold standard” intervention for Autistic children and young people. But how strong is the evidence? Whose outcomes are being measured—and whose voices are missing? This 1.5-hour webinar examines the research for social skills interventions, drawing on contemporary studies, ethical debates, and perspectives of Autistic people.

💠How did we get here? Addressing the historical context of SST
💠What is "evidence-based practice"?
💠Critiquing old theories of Autistic cognition e.g., Theory of Mind
💠Explore common outcome measures used in SST research
💠Critiquing the current evidence base for SST (specific studies)
💠Limitations of SST research
💠Ethical considerations: Does SST help or harm?
💠Contemporary, neurodivergent-affirming research
💠What do Autistic people actually want?

23/10/2025

Thankyou for taking the time to write this!

1. Motability scheme isn’t a free car like people think.
2. You only get it if you get the mobility component of PIP, so you need to have mobility issues or other issues that qualify you for the mobility component. It’s not easy to qualify for at all.
3. You pay for it monthly, your whole mobility component of your PIP pays for it. Around £308.20 a month.
4. You usually have to pay anything from £2k up to £10k+ upfront for a motability car depending on what adaptions you’re needing. The upfront cost is cheaper if you don’t need a wheelchair accessible vehicle, some cars there aren’t any upfront costs. But you pay more upfront if you want a specific model car that’s a little more expensive.
5. You only get the car for anything from 2 to 5 years, more years if it’s a wheelchair accessible vehicle. You don’t get any money back that you’ve paid towards that car over those years and then you have to find the lump sum upfront again for the next motability car.
6. If on your next review you get an assessor who doesn’t understand your conditions, they can decide to take your mobility component of pip away and you then lose the motability car. At the moment a lot of disabled people are losing motability cars because they “can drive”. Apparently driving goes against you even though many have adaptions done to the car so they can drive. The whole thing is silly, but whilst you’re going through tribunals and mandatory reconsideration you’re left without a car, in some cases they’ll let you keep it through mandatory reconsideration. Until a decision is made but that varies. And for a lot of disabled people that means they can’t get to appointments, do food shopping and other things they need to do that’s basic. These cars are disabled people’s life lines.
7. Also many on PIP actually WORK and have jobs. The adapted cars enable them to continue to be able to work or the electric power wheelchairs they can get through the scheme. People need to stop assuming that people on PIP don’t work. They’re paying tax just like everyone else.

After your lease is up the motability scheme auctions the cars off at an auction. They actually get more back for the car than the scheme paid for, as they get all the money the disabled person paid every month and then the money they get for it at auction. So they make a profit

I qualify for a motability car but I went against it as the upfront costs for an adapted car I needed was too much. It was cheaper for me to buy my own car and get everything sorted on it myself. I also avoid the stress of having to change car every so many years.
I can apply for free road tax though.

All this false information the media is spreading about the motability scheme and who can get these cars is extremely harmful. It’s going to make things even harder than they already are for disabled people to access the mobility aids and support they need. And yes a car is a mobility aid, the motability scheme isn’t just cars… it’s also how disabled people get their electric power wheelchairs too.

21/10/2025

NeuroBears Cubs is designed for younger children who are just beginning to explore their identity.

It gives them simple stories, language they can connect with, and visual tools to explain how they feel.

Cubs doesn’t rush or overwhelm, it gently builds confidence and understanding.

If you’re looking for a way to start the conversation earlier, this is it.

21/10/2025

21/10/2025

This is happening tonight at 7pm! (UK time) Last chance to purchase a ticket 😊

🌟 New Webinar for Parents/Caregivers, and Professionals 🌟

"Understanding Autistic Distress: Supporting Children and Young People Through Meltdowns" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-autistic-distress-supporting-children-through-meltdowns-tickets-1626430971819

📅 Thursday 21st October 7-8pm (UK time)

- What’s the difference between a meltdown and a tantrum?
- Should I comfort, give them space, or try to distract them?
- Are meltdowns caused by sensory overload, emotions, or both?
- Should I talk to my child about it afterwards—or just let it go?

In this session, we’ll explore what’s really happening during an autistic meltdown (or times of heightened distress). How you respond can either escalate or de-escalate your child’s distress. What you’ll learn:

✅ Causes & early signs of distress
✅ What happens in the brain and body
✅ How processing, speech, language & communication are impacted
✅ Strategies to support
✅ Common pitfalls & what to avoid
✅ Q&A (hopefully, if I can limit my info-dumping)

📹 Recording available for a limited time

🎫 £10 for parents and caregivers / £20 for professionals

I’m Emily Price (she/her), an Autistic Speech & Language Therapist based in Manchester, UK. I also have ADHD, and use both my professional expertise and lived experience of overwhelm and meltdowns to inform my work. I campaign for radical changes in therapy practices and deliver training to transform how professionals and families support neurodivergent people.

19/10/2025

🌟 New Webinar for Parents/Caregivers, and Professionals 🌟

"Understanding Autistic Distress: Supporting Children and Young People Through Meltdowns" https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understanding-autistic-distress-supporting-children-through-meltdowns-tickets-1626430971819

📅 Thursday 21st October 7-8pm (UK time)

- What’s the difference between a meltdown and a tantrum?
- Should I comfort, give them space, or try to distract them?
- Are meltdowns caused by sensory overload, emotions, or both?
- Should I talk to my child about it afterwards—or just let it go?

In this session, we’ll explore what’s really happening during an autistic meltdown (or times of heightened distress). How you respond can either escalate or de-escalate your child’s distress. What you’ll learn:

✅ Causes & early signs of distress
✅ What happens in the brain and body
✅ How processing, speech, language & communication are impacted
✅ Strategies to support
✅ Common pitfalls & what to avoid
✅ Q&A (hopefully, if I can limit my info-dumping)

📹 Recording available for a limited time

🎫 £10 for parents and caregivers / £20 for professionals

I’m Emily Price (she/her), an Autistic Speech & Language Therapist based in Manchester, UK. I also have ADHD, and use both my professional expertise and lived experience of overwhelm and meltdowns to inform my work. I campaign for radical changes in therapy practices and deliver training to transform how professionals and families support neurodivergent people.