PDA Society Newsroom

About Us

The PDA Society is the only specialist PDA charity in the UK.

We care about PDA people and believe that happy autonomous lives are possible – everything we do is about trying to make life better for PDA people and the people who care about them.

We do this by:

Raising awareness of PDA and providing high quality, trustworthy information.

Providing training to parents and professionals to help them understand how to support PDA people, and to build safe, supportive connections.

Offering tailored support to PDA people and their families through our enquiry line service. This is entirely staffed by trained people who ‘get it’, either because they are PDA themselves, or are a parent carer of a PDA person.

Supporting the PDA community to build connections and act collectively to influence positive change for PDA people.

Underpinning all of this is our commitment to research and using evidence to influence better understanding, better support and better outcomes for autistic-PDA people.

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