Sensory Trauma and Proactive Regulation
Autism self-advocate Emma Reardon shares how negative sensory experiences can lead to trauma, and how to proactively prevent them.
Emma Reardon is one of the directors of Autism Wellbeing CIC, a non-profit organisation working alongside people to change the way autism is perceived. Emma’s professional career spans almost 30 years within the field of social care. Emma has been published in the BILD Good Autism Practice Journal and is one of the co-authors of Autism Wellbeing’s ground-breaking work, “Sensory Trauma: autism, sensory difference and the daily experience of fear”. Emma also blogs about being autistic in Undercover Autism – an insider's experience and she shares her lifelong passion for the natural world in her blog Off Down The Rabbit Hole.
Autism self-advocate Emma Reardon shares how negative sensory experiences can lead to trauma, and how to proactively prevent them.