ASK Autism North East - Professionals

03/09/2026

02/09/2026

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✏️ NEW! ADLC HANDWRITING GYM ✏️
Fine Motor Skills & Handwriting Group – Aberdeen

Does your child…

Find handwriting tiring or frustrating?
Struggle with pencil control or letter formation?
Have difficulty with letter size, spacing or staying on the line?
Write very slowly?
Need to develop hand and finger strength?
Avoid written work because they find it difficult?

Our NEW Handwriting Gym at Aberdeen Dyslexia Learning Centre is designed to help!

This fun, practical 5 session small-group programme will combine handwriting practice with engaging fine-motor activities to help children develop:

⭐ Hand and finger strength
⭐ Pencil control and coordination
⭐ Letter formation
⭐ Spacing and sizing
⭐ Writing fluency
⭐ Confidence with written work

And this definitely won't be an hour of copying sentences!
We'll use playdough, construction activities, threading, tweezers, finger exercises, pencil-control challenges, multi-sensory activities, games and creative writing tasks to make developing these important skills enjoyable.

🧒 Suitable for P3–P6
👥 Maximum 5 children per group
⏰ One session daily in the October break (19th – 23rd)
📍 Aberdeen Dyslexia Learning Centre
Each child will also receive an initial handwriting/fine-motor observation in the first session.

💬 INTERESTED?
Please send the Centre a private message with your child's age/school year and a little information about what they find difficult.
✏️ Stronger hands • Better pencil control • More confident writers ✏️

aberdeendyslexia.co.uk

01/09/2026

📢Aberdeenshire Careers Expo

Are you interested in gaining employment in North East Scotland?
Join us and over 30 employers for our Careers Expo in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire on 9th September!

🔹 Available job vacancies
🔹 Volunteering opportunities
🔹 Training courses
🔹 Support services
🔹No tickets needed, just drop-in!

📅 Wednesday 9th September 2026
🕙 10am – 3pm
📍 The Palace Hotel, Peterhead

We'll also be hosting a variety of workshops throughout the day.
🎟️Register now for free!
https://AberdeenshireCareersExpo26.eventbrite.co.uk

Aberdeenshire Council

01/09/2026

💜 A little out-of-office reminder! 💜

I’ll be logging off at the end of business on Friday 4th September for a little holiday and will be back on Monday 14th September ✨

A kind reminder to existing clients who have been meaning to book a session or meeting attendance: please use my Calendly wherever possible. My remaining admin time before I finish is already allocated to client sessions, follow-up work and agreed prep work, so I unfortunately don’t have capacity for the usual back-and-forth of arranging appointments or responding to non-urgent enquiries.

You can book directly here:
📅 Calendly-Returning clients:
https://calendly.com/morethanautism/online-phone-60-minute-consult-returning-clients

My inbox won’t be monitored while I’m away, and I’ll work through messages and enquiries as soon as practical once I’m back.

Thank you, as always, for your understanding 💜

Looking forward to seeing everyone when I’m back! 😊✨

29/08/2026

Teachers speak out over spiralling workloads, pupil behaviour and a lack of ASN support

28/08/2026