Spectrum Art is a collection of projects founded by Spectrum to raise funds for our organisation and an awareness of ASDs, whilst exploring the realms of artistic expression for communicative and therapeutic purposes.

Who is Spectrum?

Spectrum is one of the UK’s leading service providers for people with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other disorders that affect behaviour including Asperger’s syndrome and ADHDs.

Our mission is to provide the highest quality services possible for our service users. We continue to work towards a day where all people with an ASD can have their individual needs met with appropriate services.

We live in a fast-paced social age, where on a daily basis our environment is becoming increasingly complex. With this in mind - the need for high-quality social skills to enable us to communicate, and effectively interact with each other, has never been so great.

This is a world that people with ASDs seem to see from a very different perspective, as they can often find it impossible to relate to what is going on around them. Living with an ASD often means the essential social skills needed to cope with society are lacking, which leads to a frustrating struggle to form relationships, communicate with others, and generally making sense of this world. There is also evidence that for some, sensory perception is different. For example, with heightened sound sensitivity, certain sounds, such as coughing, can become intolerable.

Spectrum currently provides residential services for over 80 people and regardless of being based in Cornwall, our services are demanded from far beyond our home base. We also have an Ofsted accredited school, Three Bridges, which offers education to children with an ASD up to the age of 19.

We want to do more!

Due to changes in current government legislation, people with disabilities are only entitled to three years of funded further education. The experience of going to college and learning is invaluable for our service users and we are convinced that we need to offer them limitless life-long learning.

We are also constantly looking to expand, and offer support to more people with an ASD and associated disorders. For this we need more staff, more houses and more funding!

Spectrum art therefore has been set up by us to raise money for our organisation whilst creating an awareness of Spectrum and its service users.

This site gives you access to information about past and present projects along with a press page for all media coverage. And, for those of you that don’t want to get involved, but still want to help, there is a donations page.

If you would like more information about Spectrum or ASDs please visit our main website at www.dcact.org.