Kathrine Peereboom

Living on the Spectrum: How to maintain your mental wellbeing as a tired parent.

Maintaining your resilience and wellbeing as a tired parent. is no easy task. According to Kathrine Peereboom, one of the biggest challenges for parents in this volatile world of COVID, the flu, and now interest rate rises and inflation, is maintaining your sanity and energy levels. “Parents these days are finding life tough.  Not only are …

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The Advocate: Inspirational mother of special needs children provides her tips on success

Kathrine Peereboom is a world-leading disability and vulnerable persons advocate and founder of Spectrum Support. Spectrum Support provides education and training to law enforcement and first responders across the country. Her work has attracted global awards for her extraordinary achievements. “Juggling motherhood with three special needs children and being a busy entrepreneur is certainly challenging …

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REAL LIFE: “I’m a mum of three autistic boys and this is how I boost my mental resilience”

“Nothing in life can prepare you for the joy of becoming a parent. My husband and I have three boys aged eight, seven and six. Our boys are profoundly autistic, non-verbal and have additional health issues. The challenges we have as a family have my husband and I feeling like we operate at 65 percent most …

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Kidspot: Hollywood glamorising autism puts NDIS funding in danger for my 3 boys

Speak to any parent who has applied, let alone repeatedly reapplied for NDIS funding for their child – and their hearts will start pounding just as the mere thought of the unbearably epic process. Kathrine Peereboom, knows this dreaded procedure more than most with three severely autistic non-verbal boys – Oliver, 8, Joshua, 7, and Tyler is …

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Get It Magazine Feature

Meet Kathrine Peereboom, Australia’s first Autism and Law Enforcement trainer. Having founded Spectrum Support in 2017, Kathrine Peereboom sits down with Get It Magazine’s Holly Bartter to share her story of family, forward thinking, and the work her charity is doing to educate law enforcement in understanding and managing ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in the …

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MamaMia Feature: Why autism training for police is so crucial.

For Kathrine Peereboom, life is “quite hectic”.  As a mother of three autistic nonverbal boys under the age of ten, Kathrine and her husband’s day starts at 4:30am. That’s if the family has been able to sleep through the night.  “Even though our eldest is eight, it very much feels like we still have newborns at times,” …

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Nine News Feature: Mum’s Mission to Train First Responders

Raising three children who are severely autistic comes with countless and ever-changing challenges. However there is one thing keeps Kathrine Peereboom awake at night – the thought of her boys existing in the world as adults. What will happen to them then? Kathrine, 43, and husband Stephen, 52, are devoted parents to Oliver, eight, Joshua, …

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