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Mum fights for law change over ...

The mother of a young autistic man murdered by a criminal cuckooing in his flat is fighting to change mental capacity law. Fiona Laskaris wants an amendment to the Mental Health Bill. Autistic young m ...

Study links autism to brain co ...

Japanese researchers have linked autism with a reduced ability for the brain to remove unnecessary or weak synapse connections. Synapses are the junctions between nerve cells. Nerve signals pass acros ...

Mum wins compensation as disab ...

A local council has been told to pay compensation to the mother of a disabled child for twice failing to assess her needs as a carer. Southend council agreed to apologise to the mother for twice faili ...

Supplements can help the gut, ...

Supplements targeting the gut offer a promising “adjunct therapy” for neurodevelopmental disorders, new research suggests. The Iranian researchers say the supplements affect “gastrointestinal an ...

Families crowdfund to fight he ...

Parents and carers say they are fighting “unlawful” cuts to NHS continuing healthcare budgets that will leave children with disabilities “at risk”. The families say the cuts will lead to “ha ...

£70m boost to mental health s ...

The NHS has launched a £70 million scheme targeted at helping autistic and learning-disabled children and adults access mental health services more quickly. The initiative is the Mental Health, Learn ...

Rochdale admits to huge SEND b ...

Rochdale Council has admitted to a booming backlog of Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans to review. The Borough Council told the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman it had a backlog of near ...

Medic calls for profound autis ...

The autism diagnosis should be split, with a ‘profound’ category introduced for those more severely affected. That’s the view of scientist Paul Whiteley, who argues the condition has a wide rang ...

Benefit cuts ‘devastating’ ...

An autism charity says benefit cuts planned by the UK Government are “shameful” and “devastating”. Tim Nicholls, policy director of the National Autistic Society (NAS), said the cuts would end ...

Schools ‘force parents to qu ...

Parents of special needs children are being forced to quit work because of inadequate support from mainstream schools. The charity Ambitious about Autism says parents have had to give up work, use foo ...

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