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Lancashire – PDA Support Lancashire

PDA Support Lancashire PDA Support Lancashire is a support group run by and for parent/carers of children/young people with a suspected or known PDA autistic profile, living within the Lancashire County Council boundary. Meeting details: The group offers peer-to-peer support and information, regular online sessions with speakers and monthly face-to-face meet ups, [...]

Helen’s story – PDA in families and deciding to home educate

Helen self-identifies with a PDA profile and sees the same traits in other family members including her daughter and her Mum, with mutual understanding across the generations having led to an instinctively collaborative and compassionate approach to both parenting and education. Passionately believing that our education system is not [...]

Surviving A-Levels – Jo’s story

Personal Reflection: Surviving A-Levels by Jo. Jo is a PDA young adult. He studied A-Level Philosophy, Maths and English at a mainstream school and shares his personal experience here, offering valuable insights for both young people and adults. Jo reflects on some of the challenges he faced and the approaches [...]

PDA Families National Community Group (London-based)

A supportive peer to peer discussion forum for parents and carers of PDA children via WhatsApp, with occasional meet-ups. Based in London. Please use the link below to join the WhatsApp group: Join WhatsApp group - https://chat.whatsapp.com/Bd8JWCKEZFhIjrVQqJjdOr     Please note: this support group is independent and external to the PDA Society. They are a [...]

Parent Support Group Richmondshire

SEND Parent Support Group Richmondshire. Meets every Tuesday 6pm-7.30pm at Colburn Village Hall and also online Saturday evenings 8pm-9pm via GoogleMeet. The links can be sent to anybody who requests the code. Contact via email at sendparentsrichmondshire@outlook.com or via the Facebook group.     Please note: this support group is independent and external to [...]

Keys to care in German

The PDA Society has been contacted by Elli C who has kindly translated our Keys to care information sheet into German to help German language nations understand PDA. Please note: the PDA Society is not able to verify the accuracy of translations listed on our website.   Translation date: October 2022   View translated Keys to [...]

What is PDA? information sheet in German

The PDA Society has been contacted by Elli C who has kindly translated our What is PDA? information sheet into German to help German language nations understand PDA. Please note: the PDA Society is not able to verify the accuracy of translations listed on our website.   Translation date: September 2022   View translated info sheet

Calendar Girl: The memoirs of a PDA child in a dysfunctional family

Calendar Girl is the first of Sally Cat’s planned series of short memoirs which, book by book, will recount her entire childhood with the aid of her rare photographic, calendar memory. This first book, covering the author’s first eight years, includes crystal clear memories of babyhood, toddlerhood and young childhood [...]

What is PDA? booklet in German

The PDA Society has been contacted by Elli C who has kindly translated our What is PDA? booklet into German. We’re sharing the translation here in case it helps others. Please note: the PDA Society is not able to verify the accuracy of translations listed on our website.   Translation date: July 2022   View translated booklet