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Reforms aim to level-up suppor ...

New special educational needs and disability (SEND) reforms will focus on ending the postcode lottery in services, says the UK Government. The reforms laid out in the new SEND and alternative provisio ...

Autistics vulnerable to acid r ...

Autistic adults are “significantly more” vulnerable to acid reflux, new research shows. New research shows autistic adults are more vulnerable to digestive issues. Image by rawpixel.com Medics at ...

Research excludes learning dif ...

People with autism and learning disabilities are “systematically excluded” from research, say scientists. Dr Audrey Thurm is a director at the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Profes ...

Charities clash over stance on ...

The UK’s biggest autism charity has been criticised for saying the condition should not be “lessened”. The National Autistic Society (NAS) made the comment in response to research on a parent-co ...

In Awareness Month, people ‘ ...

As nations across the globe mark ‘World Autism Awareness Month’, a UK charity says most people are “unaware” of the reality of life for people with severe autism living with chronic health con ...

Severe diets cause scurvy, eye ...

Autistic people surviving on highly restricted diets may become vulnerable to scurvy and eye disorders. New work led by dietician Summer Yule found severe nutritional deficiencies in narrow diets can ...

Study points to brain cell iss ...

Faulty brain cells failing to communicate effectively may be an underlying cause of autism, new research suggests. Researchers found people with autism suffer malfunctions in a cell producing a specia ...

Drug has remarkable effect on ...

An autistic toddler given a drug to treat swelling improved so much she fell below the cut-off score for the condition, claims new research. The two-and-a-half-year-old girl was treated with bumetan ...

Call for special clinics for a ...

Specialist clinics are needed to treat commonly co-occurring illnesses in autism. That’s the view of biomedical charity Thinking Autism. Matty Allman, who had problems with challenging behaviour in ...

Conference debates latest trea ...

Leading figures in autism are gathering for a conference on the latest developments in treating the condition. Thinking Autism’s conference will hear from experts on a wide variety of topics. These ...

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