Welcome to PHAD Fife

People with High Functioning Autistic Disorders

Welcome to the PHAD Fife Website

PHAD Fife is a charity founded in 1995 to help families and carers of sufferers of high-functioning autistic disorders such as Asperger's Syndrome and Semantic Pragmatic Disorder - the ably autistic.

We also seek to raise awareness of autism in the wider community and promote mutual understanding between high-functioning autistic individuals and the rest of our diverse society.
 

Changes to the Website

The changeover to our new website domain phadfife.org.uk, provided by Digital Fife, is now complete. Our old domain www.phad-fife.org uk will stay active for the time being, but will redirect users to the new site, and will eventually be phased out. At that time any bookmarks pointing to the old site will stop working, so please update your PHAD bookmarks to point to the new site as soon as you can.

Use the Contact PHAD link on the left to get in touch with the Webmaster about anything on the site that doesn't work as it should, or about any factual errors.

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Opportunity to join the User and Carer Sub Group

Nominations are sought from the autism community to join the ASD Reference Group’s User and Carer Sub-group to ensure that the needs of people with autism, their parents and carers are reflected and incorporated in the implementation of the strategy. Click here to access a PDF file containing more information and an application form.

Fife Appropriate Adult Service: Event for Parents/Carers

Following the launch of the new Appropriate Adult leaflets in 2011, it has been suggested that there should be an information event for parents and carers about the Fife Appropriate Adult Service. Click here to view or download a PDF file (220K) with more details.

Sensory Experience Survey

Natasha Byrne has now finished collecting data for this project and is collating the results. She sends her grateful thanks to the many people who contacted her.

Alexandra Petrou, a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, is interested in recruiting individuals over the age of 18 with ASD and Asperger's Syndrome who have English as their mother tongue for a study on how people on the Autism Spectrum may be better than the general population at distinguishing between various kinds of sounds. This would involve face to face contact and Alex is happy to travel to Fife.  For more information click here to view a PDF file in a new window, or email Alex on amp12@hw.ac.uk.