Heidi Bedwell is offering free training sessions to teaching staff and professionals to help them understand autism and related conditions from the perspective of someone who lives with them. She has diagnoses of Asperger syndrome, ADHD, and Tourette's syndrome herself. The informal sessions are question-driven and focus on individual differences. Her goal is to help carers and teachers get the most they can from working with people on the autism spectrum. To book a session, email glider13@sky.com.

1. A VIEW FROM THE DARK SIDE !!!!
Training for Teaching staff and professionals
Hi, please let me introduce myself.
My name is Heidi Bedwell and I am an adult with
diagnoses of Asperger syndrome, ADHD and Tourettes
syndrome.
I was born in 1976 and raised in the South of England and
attended mainstream schools, leaving at age 16 with 9
gcses graded C or higher. I am a mother of four and one
of my children has autism and another has Aspergers,
ADHD, Tourettes, sleep-disorder and anxiety. Another of
my children suffers from depression and my birth family
has an extensive history of mental health (including
psychosis) and A.S.D. or related conditions. I have three
siblings and each of them has a child or children on the
autistic spectrum and at least one of my siblings also fits
the diagnostic criteria for A.S.D.
I have 3 years of degree level psychological studies and
40 years of experience of autism and mental health
issues from both a personal and carers veiwpoint. I have
also worked with adults with learning disabilities. I
received my diagnoses as an adult, after spending many

2. years wondering why I struggled to 'fit in' with my peers.
I am offering training and information sessions to those
who work with both children and adults on the autistic
spectrum and/or with related conditions. My aim is to
help carers/teaching staff, understand the condition and
some of it's co-morbidities from the point of veiw of
someone who lives with
autism/aspergers/ADHD/Tourettes/mental health
difficulties every day. I am hoping this will help
carers/teaching staff and service users/students get the
most they can from working with each other.
The sessions are very informal and a lot of it is based on a
question and answer process depending what
staff/carers would like to learn and there is always an
emphasis on individual differences.
If you would like to book a session, please contct me via
email : glider13@sky.com
I would put a phone number but due to difficulties with
processing speed and anxiety, I find telephone
conversations difficult to follow!
Thank you for reading,
Heidi Bedwell.

3. (Sessions are being offered for free for a limited time
only)