We are lucky that Autism has a fairly large presence on the Internet. But to make life a little easier, we have included a selection of links that we feel may be of use to all. Clicking on each of the links below will cause another browser window to open with that page in - if you have a pop-up blocker running, you may need to disable it.

Activities/Days Out

http://www.thomasandfriends.com/uk/parents/dowt/southeast.html
The complete 2008 listings for Days Out with Thomas at various steam railways around the South-East region.

http://www.specialneedstoys.com/
A selection of special needs toys, selecting the UK site takes you to the former Toys for the Handicapped site

http://www.arethusa.org.uk/index.asp
Details about The Arethusa Venture Centre, Upnor, right on our doorstop in Medway

The Fledglings
Fledglings is a special company that does many things for special need children/adults.
Tel : 08454581124
e-mail: enquiries@fledglings.org.uk

http://www.drusillas.co.uk/
You can now visit Thomas at Drusillas Park, click the link above to find out more.

http://www.legoland.co.uk/planyourvisit/faq.htm
For information regarding disability concessions, select the Guests with Disabilities option

http://www.chessington.co.uk/plan_your_visit/disabled_guide.asp?css=2
Chessington World of Adventures disabled policy - this is also available as a PDF download

Useful Information

eBay Store - Someone With Autism Loves Me
An interesting eBay shop.
[From the site] I sell Character and Special Needs Games and Visual aids for Autism, Aspergers & Special Needs Children. If there is something you don't see and would like made drop me an email i may be able to help If a buy it now is not listed email me and i will do it for you.

http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk/html/content/teenager.pdf
An interesting and potentially useful document entitled "Learning Disabilities and the Family - The Teenager with a Severe Learning Disability (PDF Download)

http://www.tacanow.com/letter.htm
Here's a link that should help explain things clearly to all friends and families. Maybe it will help when you are next planning a visit to send this out first.
The rest of the site is quite interesting too.

http://www.ceacard.co.uk/
The Cinema Exhibitors' Association Card - Details of the free cinema ticket system

http://www.autismjobs.org/
Linking job seekers with vacancies in work related to autism, Asperger's and ASDs

http://www.awares.org/conferences/
Details of Autism2005 and Autism2006, the first two online conferences to run within the AWARES conference centre, hosted by Autism Cymru

http://www.connectionsmusic.co.uk/
[From the site] Connections is a double CD set of original music, songs, stories and games for children and young adults across the autistic spectrum

http://www.autismone.org/radio
This site is a radio station broadcasting over the Internet. The site has the facility to listen to to current or archived shows.

http://www.larsperner.com/
Life with Autism - check out the "Brief Biography" link, proof that there is hope out there for our no-so-little ones!

Search Engine Results

http://www.medway.gov.uk/search/resultspage.htm?q=autism
Search results from the Medway council site

google.co.uk - uk search
UK search results from the Google search engine

google.co.uk - world wide search
International search results from the Google search engine

http://search.ebay.com/autism-behavior
Search results from the eBay auction site, using autism & behaviour as search criteria

Fun & Games

http://www.thinkfun.com/RUSHHOUR.ASPX?PageNo=RUSHHOUR
http://www.thinkfun.com/RIVERCROSSING.ASPX?PageNo=RIVERCROSSING
http://www.thinkfun.com/TIPOVER.ASPX?PageNo=TIPOVER
Three games here from ThinkFun, with demos built in to each of the pages (Although the Rush Hour demo doesn't work and you need to use the keys for Tipover if you use the Firefox internet browser). The real game of Rush Hour is available in the MAGIC library to borrow (for 1 month at a time) and is great at developing skills needed in planning. Tipover is also available
What's more, these games are recommended by the Occupational Therapists at Medway Hospital - fun under doctors orders, doesn't get much better, does it?!

http://flightsimx.cyclops.amnesia.com.au/index.html
Highly addictive fun for the whole family!

http://www.jambav.com/
As the site states, free online games for children of all abilities

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
Take the Autism test here!!

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=9644
Don't do it!!!

http://www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/popnow.shtml
If you are really bored!! We can recommend Manic Mode!

http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/index.php
This is a list of the games for everyone. Two of the games are linked below.
http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/crashdown/crashdownwm.swf
This is like Tetris, only in reverse!
http://www.schoolexpress.com/funtime/iqgame/iq_game.php
And this one is for adults, although kids may like it too. It’s a challenge …

http://www.arkive.org/
http://www.planetarkive.org/home.html
http://www.arkiveeducation.org/
These three sites are for all you nature lovers out there, offering images, games and educational information about this rather impressive planet we live on

http://www.desq.co.uk/sections/play/index.asp?a=play&opt=default
There are some good games here, but there is also some interesting information in here for us parents too (for when we have finished playing!)