Olga Bogdashina

Dr. Olga Bogdashina is a Co-founder and Leader of the Autism Programme at the International Autism Institute, KSPU; Associative Consultant to ICEP Europe at ICEP Europe, founder of the Autism Society of Ukraine and director of the first Day Centre for autistic children in Gorlovka, Ukraine; mother of a young man with classic autism and a daughter with Asperger Syndrome. She has worked intensively in the field of autism as a teacher, lecturer and researcher. Email us to enquire about upcoming training with OLGA info@integratedtreatments.co.uk

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Mono-processing: One Sense at a Time

However, it is one thing to perceive (at the stage of sensation), but to process all this information is a different matter altogether. No...

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Theory of Different Minds

I remember the first time I read about the lack of Theory of Mind in autism in the paper by Baron-Cohen, Leslie and Frith, published in...

The Ability to Hypersense

I have no statistics based on research but I strongly believe that more than 95-97% of the population can be regarded as dysfunctional in...

It is not as simple as ABC

Present but invisible antecedent Sometimes we cannot see/hear/feel certain stimuli as our senses are too ‘normal’. For example, the...

Sensory Intolerance in Autism

All senses can be affected. Some children might find many noises and bright lights nearly impossible to bear; for others certain noises...

Delayed Processing in Autism

Delayed processing in autism The experience of ‘delayed hearing’ happens when the question/instruction has been sensed and recorded...

Scotopic Sensitivity / Irlen Syndrome (SS/IS) and Autism

Irlen suggests that there are people whose problem is not in the processing of information but in the inability to get it through one of...

Prosopagnosia (“Face Blindness”) in Autism

Prosopagnosia (“Face Blindness”) in Autism Face blindness or prosopagnosia is a disorder of the ability to recognize faces. It can...

Autism – Sensations last too long!

Autism: Sensations last too long Non-autistics ‘forget’ the sensation very quickly. For example, when you get dressed in the morning...

Fragmented World of Autism: Perception in “Bits”

Fragmentation For many autistic individuals, fragmentation of the world is not just a metaphor, it is real. Because of gestalt perception,...