Autistic SLT

06/09/2025

Round 2!
I’m excited to relaunch the Walk With Pride shoe painting workshop with some improvements based on your feedback. The workshop is now open to ALL ages and is happening in one creative afternoon instead of spread over two days

Join me and other LGBTQIA+ community members for a free, relaxed workshop where we’ll transform plain canvas shoes into pride masterpieces. Perfect for beginners!

Who’s ready to walk with pride in their custom creations?

05/09/2025

📢 Announcement 📢

I'm super excited to announce that I'm now licensed to deliver NeuroBears 🐼🐼🐼www.pandasonline.org/catalog

NeuroBears is a strengths-based course for Autistic young people (typically 8-14) and their families. It was developed by Nic King from Pandas online and co-created with Autistic young people and adults.

Core themes include:
🐼 Autistic identity
🐼 Sensory processing
🐼 Meltdowns and shutdowns
🐼 Masking and communication
🐼 Spoon theory

As a Neurodivergent-Affirming Speech and Language Therapist, I'm always seeking out tools that respect and celebrate Autistic ways of being. My focus is to support self-advocacy, authentic communication, and a positive Autistic identity.

Website: www.autisticslt.com
Email: autisticslt@gmail.com

03/09/2025

🌟 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.

29/08/2025

Sensory-friendly classrooms support all students by promoting regulation, flexibility and inclusion, creating a calm and focused learning environment.

29/08/2025

"Mental ill-health and neurodiversity now accounts for more than half of the post-pandemic increase we have seen in claimants of disability benefit"... Neurodiversity? So, neurotypicalism too? 😂

Former health secretary wants to see an overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities system in England

28/08/2025

27/08/2025

26/08/2025

This is what play might look like in a young child; arranging, lining up, and collecting. Often they focus their attention deeply on one thing at a time due to their cognitive style, which helps explain why many Autistic children play by arranging or lining up objects. This kind of play is not “wrong” but a meaningful way of exploring patterns and creating order, which is a self-regulating strategy. Supporting it with respect by joining in, narrating, or gently extending—honours autistic play as valid and valuable.

25/08/2025

stay kind. stay gentle