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Medical staff still lack autism training

Medical staff in the UK’s national health service are still not being trained to support people with autism, an inquiry has found. The Westminster Commission on Autism discovered that many NHS staff have still not received any autism training, despite requirements...

New voice for learning disabilities

A new organisation to promote the rights and voice of people with learning disabilities is set to be launched at the House of Lords. Learning Disability England brings together people with learning disabilities, their families and supportive professionals. Commenting on...

Adults fear death in poor healthcare

People with learning disabilities are “scared” of receiving poor healthcare because of the treatment autistic teen Connor Sparrowhawk received from Southern Health Trust, which led to his death. During a parliamentary debate at Westminster, Oxford East MP Andrew Smith read out...

Libraries aim to be more autism friendly

Staff at all 3,000 public libraries throughout England are to be offered training and support in being more autism-friendly. They will be given access to an Autism Friendly Libraries film and support materials, in the hope that it will lead...

Institutional care promises ignored

Families calling for outdated institutional care facilities to be shut down are being ignored by the UK Government – despite promises to reform the system. The institutions, which have long housed people with conditions including autism and learning disabilities, came under...

Links found to bipolar and schizophrenia

New research is claiming a genetic overlap between autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. In a study featured in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, scientists from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the University of Iowa examined...

3,800 children miss school deadline

More than 3,800 children in the UK with special educational needs have been left waiting for the plan that is supposed to help them move from primary to secondary school this September. The delays are set to cause confusion and...

Study points to anti-mosquito pesticides

The use of airplanes for spraying anti-mosquito pesticides may increase the risk of children developing autism and developmental delays. New research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, follows the identification of a swampy region in central New York...

Autism found to lower risk of cancer

A new study has come to the surprising conclusion that individuals with autism may have a lower risk of developing cancer than the general population. The finding runs contrary to expectations based on earlier research that found that people with...

Liverpool leads autism-friendly cities

Autism campaigners in Liverpool are spearheading a national movement to make the UK more autism friendly. They want the city to become one of the first genuinely autism-friendly areas in the UK. A ‘Liverpool Autism Champions’ emblem has been unveiled that will be displayed...

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