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

Memory in autism

Some people tend to remember concepts and ideas. This is conceptual memory. Conceptual memories contain vast amount of information in a...

Concept formation in Autism: When a ball is not a ball but Oliver and cinema are the same

We all start our lives with sensory experiences. The aspects of perceived experience are stored in long-term memory and form ‘perceptual...

Attention in Autism

{Intro]We are surrounded by thousands of sights, sounds, smells and other sensory stimuli. Consciously we can process only a limited...

Fluctuation – An Unstable Reality

Although we could address hyper- and hyposensitivities by desensitising a child and/or providing the aids to help them cope (in the case of...

Vulnerability to sensory overload

The causes of information of overload can be: the inability to filter out irrelevant or excessive information delayed processing if the...

Agnosia – difficulty interpreting a sense

The consequence of being unable to filter sensory information and being flooded with sensory stimuli at the rate the person cannot cope, is...

Synaesthesia in Autism

To translate it into plain English – if you answer ‘yes’ to one of the following questions you have synaesthesia: Can you see sounds?...

AUTISM – Systems Shutdowns

Shutdown may feel different to different people, but it is very unpleasant and often frightening. If the sensory stimulation is...

Challenging behaviour in autism? It’s often a positive sign

Those who work with so-called aloof/withdrawn children know how hard it is to reach them and involve them in any activity. These children...

Peripheral perception (avoidance of direct perception) in autism

Some autistic individuals argue that often they do not use their direct/central perception because ‘it hurts’, i.e. it is hyper-. They...