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Autism

Autism in Children and Adults

Our approach to supporting those with autism is comprehensive and 360 degrees. We dig deep to identify the underlying factors contributing to your symptoms and provide the body with what it needs for the brain to flourish.

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Helping individuals with autism to thrive

Individuals with autistic traits vary enormously, which is why it is important to take the time to assess underlying contributing factors and create a fully individualised approach to support them.

It is possible to optimise overall health and wellbeing of those with autism by taking the time to fully understand the drivers of difficulties..

Alongside the struggles, there are many wonderful advantages to being autistic. We aim to help make life easier and help unlock potential.

Our Biology-led Therapy Options

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BioNutrient Therapy

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BioTransform

BioTransform for individuals with autism

The body's biochemistry shapes mood, energy, sleep, focus, gut function and behaviour. For individuals with autistic traits, addressing underlying biochemical imbalances can sometimes ease the pressures that make day-to-day life harder.

BioTransform is a six-month, individualised program drawing on Functional Medicine, clinical Nutrition and Walsh Nutrient Therapy. The work is led by The Key Clinic team and based on detailed lab testing. Programs are built around the specific imbalances we find, and adjusted as you or your child responds.  The program involves targeted supplements, dietary changes and lifestyle adjustments. It is drug-free. We know that food and sensory differences can make this kind of work feel daunting; our practitioners have decades of experience supporting families through it sensitively, including with selective eating and sensory considerations.

If you or your child are on prescribed medication, do not stop or change it without speaking to the prescribing doctor. BioTransform works alongside medical care.

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BioNutrient Therapy

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BioTransform

BioTransform for individuals with autism

If you or your child are on prescribed medication, do not stop or change it without speaking to the prescribing doctor. BioTransform works alongside medical care.

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individuals with autism

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BrightBeatz

BrightBeatz for individuals with autism

Some people find listening genuinely harder than others, and it has little to do with effort. Two patterns are common. In one, background noise feels overwhelming and constant, making it easy to be distracted. In the other, certain frequencies are heard unevenly, scrambling the signal before the brain can fully make sense of it. Either can make a classroom or a busy room exhausting, not because the person isn’t trying, but because their brain is doing extra work just to hear.

BrightBeatz is The Key Clinic’s at-home listening programme, developed to address exactly this. Over 10 days, you listen to customised, gently modulated music through headphones in two short sessions a day, training the ear to process sound in a more balanced way. Developed with Audiology Professor Joshua Reiss of Queen Mary University of London, it brings this work out of the clinic and into the home.

Clients report a range of changes during or after the programme:

Calmer responses to noisy environments
Less startle to sudden sounds
Clearer speech and easier conversation
Better focus during reading and homework

Every person responds differently and individual results vary.

“Sofia has come on leaps and bounds. Her conversation skills and speech have hugely improved, it’s amazing!”

— Parent, Dec 2023

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Auditory Integration Training

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NeuroMature

Some people with autism have retained primitive reflexes, automatic movement patterns from infancy that never fully integrated as the nervous system matured. Not everyone does, but where these reflexes stay active, decades of neurodevelopmental research link them to challenges with anxiety, sensory sensitivity, attention and coordination. NeuroMature works on those specific reflexes, and only those, through short daily movement exercises built on a decade of clinical work.

Follow it yourself at home with The Key Clinic, with clear, structured video guidance every step of the way, and the option to add one-off coached sessions if you’d like extra support.

Parents and adults report improvements in confidence, coordination, focus and anxiety. Everyone responds differently.

“Ollie was oversensitive to sound, and now he’s calmer, more confident, like a different child. Really pleased.”

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Auditory Integration Training

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NeuroMature

Follow it yourself at home with The Key Clinic, with clear, structured video guidance every step of the way, and the option to add one-off coached sessions if you’d like extra support.

Parents and adults report improvements in confidence, coordination, focus and anxiety. Everyone responds differently.

“Ollie was oversensitive to sound, and now he’s calmer, more confident, like a different child. Really pleased.”

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Testimonials

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See the good news

BioTransform + BrightBeatz + NeuroMature

In just a matter of weeks, we saw a huge change in our son following the removal of certain food groups and environmental elements. This has had a positive knock-on effect across multiple areas of his life.

BioTransform + BrightBeatz

The Key Clinic has really helped my son to thrive in daily life. His sleeping and eating habits improved significantly, having a knock-on effect on his ability to focus and manage his emotions. He thrives now at school and in his free time.

BioTransform

We have just finished a 6-month nutritional regime with amazing results. The biomedical report made us understand what our daughter's body needs. The supplements have made a massive difference to her sensory responses and emotional regulation.

All pathways

After following the BrightBeatz and neurodevelopmental programme I am so pleased we also did the biomedical. Our son had mild autism and through the Key Clinic was diagnosed with Pyrrole disorder. After following the programme the change in him has been remarkable.

BioTransform

After nine months, he was completely transformed into a happier and more settled child. His social skills improved, making him more comfortable interacting with other children. He is trying a variety of foods he would never have touched before.

BrightBeatz

We were at a loss as to how we could help our daughter. When I first heard about the Key Clinic on the Chris Evans show, I immediately identified with what he was talking about. At each stage I have felt fully supported.

BrightBeatz

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Symptoms of Autism

In Children

In Children

In Adults

You may have noticed some or several of the following symptoms:

Avoiding eye contact

Not responding to your facial expressions (ie smiling at them)

Repetitive movements, such as spinning, hand flapping and rocking (also known as “stimming”)

Difficulty with imaginative/ pretend play

Not talking as much as other children (delayed speech/echolalia/no speech)

Sensory processing difficulties:

They may be hypersensitive to sounds, smells, light, clothing textures and fussy eating
They may be hyposensitive to their own internal signals eg too warm/cold or needing the toilet (they may also enjoy specific sensory input, such as a weighted blanket)

Having a very keen interest in certain subjects or activities

Stomach pain and/or difficulties with digestion

Get ill frequently or (rarely) never get ill

Dislike loud environments/sounds