Got news of this yesterday,a small..ish cheshire based residential home and respite organisation got in contact with staff to say they want to come and assess am,to see if am suitable for one of their residentials,they're coming on monday.
They take on autistics 'with high complex needs and challenging behavior',and are NAS and BILD approved,they also own a horse as a resident pet for the human residents,to provide therapy and companionship.
It's in a 'semi rural area',they've got their own land [quite a lot of it],no idea what part of cheshire it's in,would do anything [or most things] to get a place there,or if not there then another home of theirs,it would mean finally get out of traffords hellish learning disability residential services.
All depends on what the people are like who live in those homes,because am was told not long ago have to live on own with own staff team because of the problems am cause for others,but won't know anything further till monday.
Now off to check the organisation out on CSCI.
Links to great autism related services,information,forums etc
- National Autistic Society
- Autism Initiatives
- JTalk [a decent TTS program]
- Text2Speech [A simple TTS program]
- Riding For The Disabled Association
- Wrong Planet
- Deaf Gamers [ideal for autists who want to find out which games have and haven't got subtitles in]
- Pets As Therapy
- Stephen Wiltshire [great artist]
- Autistics
- Support Dogs
- Nordoff Robbins [music therapy]
About K.O.R.
- KingdomOfRats
- K.O.R. is in her twenties,Classic Autistic and lives in a 24hr care residential home. K.O.R. is often non verbal,and uses makaton,laptop or PDA for full communication. K.O.R. likes cats more than anything,and has a visiting tomcat here nicknamed GFB [greedy fat bastard,it's what people always say when they first see him]. The cat in the [new] banner at the top of the page,is GFB.