At least 1 in 25 Australian children are Autistic. Autism is a lifelong condition and there is no evidence of increased prevalence, just increased diagnoses. Autism is a natural difference in brain structure that may be characterised by differences in social interaction, language use, sensory differences and a preference to focus on topics of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mount Alexander Shire is home to Australia’s first neurodiversity arts festival, Neurokin Arts Festival<\/a> (formerly Sensory Sanctuary). Neurokin Arts Festival will be held by Louise Cooper and ARCANE in June 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently Louise wrote the book Welcome Neurokin, I am Autistic<\/em> in consultation with the Autistic community. It gives a strengths-based insight into Autism and is available for purchase from Stoneman\u2019s Bookshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At least 1 in 25 Australian children are Autistic. Autism is a lifelong condition and there is no evidence of increased prevalence, just increased diagnoses. Autism is a natural difference in brain structure that may be characterised by differences in social interaction, language use, sensory differences and a preference to focus on topics of interest.… Read more Autism<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-masdag-updates","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cch.org.au\/masdag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}