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Mum fights for law change over dead son

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. She wants the Bill to allow parents to...

Study links autism to brain connections

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 across them. Normally, the brain undergoes synaptic pruning. This process removes...

Mum wins compensation as disabled carer

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 failing to assess her...

Supplements can help the gut, says study

Supplements targeting the gut offer a promising “adjunct therapy” for neurodevelopmental disorders, new research suggests. The Iranian researchers say the supplements affect “gastrointestinal and behavioural symptoms”. Dr Amir Hossein Memari, of Tehran University, led the study. His team conducted a...

Families crowdfund to fight health cuts

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 “harrowing and costly hospital readmissions”. They have come together to...

£70m boost to mental health services

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, Learning Disability and Autism: Assessment and Diagnosis, NHS Talking Therapies and...

Rochdale admits to huge SEND backlog

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 nearly 1,500 EHC Plans to review. An...

Medic calls for profound autism category

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 range of causes, presentations and trajectories. Whiteley runs Education and...

Benefit cuts ‘devastating’, says NAS

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 up “pushing more autistic people into poverty”. Liz Kendall, the...

Schools ‘force parents to quit work’

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 food banks and claim benefits when their child...

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