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Support Services in BC

• Autism BC

• Autism Information Services BC

• BC Crisis Centre

• BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services

• Canucks Autism Network

• Children & Youth with Special Needs

• Community Brain Injury Program for Children & Youth in BC

• Community Living BC

• Foundry BC

• Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre

• Kids Help Phone

• Learning Disabilities Association of BC

• Mental Health Centres (Fraser Health)

• Pacific Autism Family Network

• Youth in BC (Crisis Lines)

Websites & Blogs

• Autism Self Advocacy Network

• A Nurse’s ADHD Resource Library

• ADDitude

• ADHD ReWired

• The Autistic Advocate

• CADDRA (Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance)

• CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)

• Disability Thoughts

• Embrace ASD (Great site for autism self screeners!)

• How to ADHD

• Neurocosmopolitanism

• Neuroclastic

• The PDA Resource List

• PDA Society

• Reframing Autism

• Sparrows and Penguins

• Spectrum News

• Spectrum Women

• Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

• Unstrange Mind

• Wrong Planet

Articles

• A Communal Definition of Autism

• ADHD Myths and Truths

• Autism and Eating Disorders May Have an Emotional Connection

• Autism and the Double Empathy Problem: Implications for Development and Mental Health

• Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity

• Core Set of Autism Traits Shows up in Diverse Cultures

• Double Empathy - Explained

• Developmental Disabilities, Mental Health Issues Often Overlap

• How Teachers Can Take A More Compassionate Approach to Behaviors

• Intro to AuDHD

• If Not ABA, Then What?

• Interoception and Autism: Body Awareness Challenges for Those with ASD

• Putting the Pieces Together: The Down Syndrome-Autism Intersection

• Sexual Education Resources for People with Disabilities

• The Mental Health of Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Ontario: Lessons from Administrative Health Data

• The Problem with Behaviorism – Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint

• What is Sensory Overload?

• What’s it Like Being Self Diagnosed - #actuallyautistic Adult

Videos & Audios

• Attention Regulation: The Difference Between ADHD and Autism (Explaining The Neurodiversity Rainbow)

• Aspergers from the Inside

• Atypically Autistic

• Compliance is Not the Goal: Letting Go of Control and Rethinking Support for Autistic Individuals

• Defining Happiness: An Autism Perspective

• Pomodoro Technique

• Failing at Normal: An ADHD Success Story

• Neurowonderful - Ask an Autistic

• The Power of Vulnerability

• What is Neurodiversity?