Girls and Autism - Resources

• SEND Service Leaflet: Social Battery, Camouflaging and Masking

• Plymouth Online Directory, A quick guide to masking: Masking flyer by NDP team at Amaze (plymouthonlinedirectory.co.uk)

• The CAT-Q is a self-report measure of social camouflaging behaviours in adults, used to identify camouflaging behaviours in autistic people: Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) – NovoPsych

• Helping you to identify and understand autism masking, Emma Kendall

• Autism and masking: How and why people do it, and the impact it can have, Dr F Sedgewick et al.

• National Autistic Society: Masking (autism.org.uk)

• YouTube Purple Ella ‘Autism and masking’: AUTISM AND MASKING |Purple Ella (youtube.com)

• BBC Two – Inside our Autistic Minds, Flo explains the challenges of autistic masking/ camouflaging: BBC Two - Inside Our Autistic Minds, Flo's Film

EBSA Toolkit: Emotionally Based School Avoidance Toolkit 

• Some tips for a good transition from primary to secondary school for autistic pupils - Autistic Girls Network

• Making Transitions Easier for Autistic Learners | Autism Education Trust

• SEND Service resource:  Social Communication Needs – Pupil Observation Form

• SEND Service resource:  Autism in Girls Checklist - April 2024

• SEND Service resource: All about Me – Pupil views

• Cambridgeshire Community Services, ‘After assessment for ASD’: After assessment (cambscommunityservices.nhs.uk)

• Telling your child about their diagnosis – a guide for parents and carers parents and carers (autism.org.uk)

• Barnardo’s Cygnets Parenting Programme Cygnet Programme (barnardos-parenting.org.uk)

• Aspire Romsey Mill Aspire | Romsey Mill Trust