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...
by Chloe Boden | May 3, 2024 9:54AM | Campaigns - Autism
A woman has spoken out in frustration after her family were left to fall between the cracks as she waited 18 years longer than her brother to be diagnosed with autism. Rachel Vernon’s son, who is also autistic, has now been out of school for 10 months, while he...
by Esmé Kenney | May 3, 2024 9:47AM | Campaigns - Autism
More people are turning to an NHS system which allows them to choose a health provider and reduce their waiting time for an autism assessment. This comes as figures show 147,042 patients in England are waiting longer than 13 weeks. Right to Choose is a system that can...
by Marti Stelling | May 2, 2024 3:09PM | Campaigns - Autism
Only three in 10 autistic adults are in work meaning those with the condition face worse prospects than any other group of disabled people, The statistics revealed as part of the Buckland Review of Autism Employment say this compares with half of all disabled people...
by Ruby Watson | May 2, 2024 11:37AM | Campaigns - Autism
A teenage author has sold over 70,000 copies of his book telling of his struggles with autism and bullying – in an effort to raise awareness of the condition and money for charity. Charlie Michael Baker, from Leyland in Lancashire, self-published Autism and Me,...
by Marti Stelling | May 2, 2024 11:35AM | Campaigns - Autism
Many UK companies are showing their commitment to closing the autism employment gap – from providing specialist training for colleagues to innovatively changing their hiring process. Just three in ten autistic adults are in work, according to statistics from the...
