by Esmé Kenney | May 3, 2024 3:19PM | Campaigns - Autism
Support for autistic people in Sheffield is being offered by a collaboration of NHS services and charities to help them before and after diagnosis. As part of the Autism Waiting List Project, Sheffield Adult Autism and Neurodevelopmental Service (SAANS) and the...
by Marti Stelling | May 3, 2024 2:28PM | Campaigns - Autism
Autistic people are being helped into the world of work thanks to a North Yorkshire college’s efforts to provide experience with employers. According to a government report, autistic people are less likely to have easy access to work experience and this can have...
by Sophie Warburton | May 3, 2024 1:07PM | Campaigns - Autism
Increased public awareness of autism has prompted a surge in demand for a diagnosis which health and education systems are struggling to match, it has been claimed. Experts have told Sheffield Wire that the increase in diagnosed neurodivergent individuals with more...
by Zhaona Li | May 3, 2024 11:53AM | Campaigns - Autism
Women with autism are finding it harder to get a diagnosis due to a male bias in the methods used, according to a psychology expert. The ratio of autistic males to females is estimated at 3:1, but a “big gender disparity” and “disproportionate research...
by Zhaona Li | May 3, 2024 11:23AM | Campaigns - Autism
A university student who asked his GP for an autism diagnosis two years ago is still waiting for a reply – despite an official target of people being seen by a specialist within 13 weeks. Tony, 20, a second-year undergraduate animation student at Falmouth...
by David Hall | May 3, 2024 11:08AM | Campaigns - Autism
When Rose Matthews woke up in a police cell, they couldn’t understand how they had got there and why their life felt as though it was spiralling out of control. After what they could only describe as a ‘meltdown’, Rose had been locked up and left to...
