Has anyone heard of Pegasus - new ASD programme from GOSH?

[alison222]

I recieved a flyer today from local parentcarerforum.

It sounds interesting and wondered if any of you had heard of it/ had any experience as it is research and they have run several of them this year.

It seems to be a course to raise children's awareness of their strengths and difficulties and how to self manage.

Plus there is something similar for the parents at the same time

We are about to do this on with GOSH. It is, as you say a programme where children get together and discuss their autism in a very positive way...ie strengths and discussion about what it means to be autistic.This is run by a member of the psychology team. Parents get together in another room to discuss anything and everything again supported by a psychologist.

If its anything as good as the care and support DS received from the team at GOS on diagnosis, it should be good!

HTH

Thats what I thought - GOSH has a good reputation and any help is better than none.
I have just had the information e-mailed to me and think that I will go for it.

Sounds interesting. I saw they were running a research project for it too. I wonder what the results of that were.

This is still the research project. They seem to be running several in a year as each one is only 6 children who are selected and 6 who are not to serve as a control. Each study runs for 6 weeks but the monitoring over 9.