My name is Hannah Anderson and you may recognise my friendly (I hope) face from the PAS Activities Team. Many of you reading this will be unaware that I have Autism. This has a huge impact on my day-to-day life, but to the vast majority of people, this isn’t obvious. I wasn’t diagnosed with Autism...

With the October holidays fast approaching, our Family Support Team have put together some top tips for planning a family day out or activity! Pack a sensory bag full of things that will help your young person, e.g. a favourite toy, ear defenders, fidget spinner, slimeUse appropriate visuals. This could be a detailed plan for...

Our Outreach programme brings our PAS services to the rural areas of Pitlochry and Aberfeldy, Crieff and Blairgowrie. Our purpose is to avoid social isolation of the young people and their families who struggle to make it to Perth to access services and ensure families across Perthshire have an equitable access to services. We are...

Today is National Fitness Day so what better day to tell you what our Young Adults have been up to lately, with funding from the National Lottery Community Fund, Scotland and in partnership with local Community Interest Company, Scotland All-Strong. Young people aged 14 – 18 who are registered with Perth Autism Support have the...

People often ask us why we do what we do, and why our activities are different from other providers. So, as part of our blog series we will focus on each of our activities so we can explain what our aims and objectives of our programme are. Our activities programme is not just a play...

Angie and Elaine were delighted to attend Ardvreck School in Crieff today to deliver staff training on supporting autistic pupils, as part of their inset day training before the new term starts for them tomorrow. This is the second independent school we have delivered training to in the last month and we are so pleased...

The focus of our new blog site is to give an insight in to what we do on a daily basis, how are we supporting our young people to allow them to develop skill and achieve their goals. As with working with any young person, there are some challenges but the successes far outweigh these!...