This guide from SCIE looks at how social care services can improve access to adults with autism. It is based on research that explores the barriers to services experienced by people with autism. It covers people with autism, whether or not they also have a learning disability. The guide suggests ways services can improve, identifying how best to meet the goals of the government’s autism strategy.
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/guides/guide43/index.asp
New Autism skills and knowledge list launched
News release from Skills for Care – 22 September 2011
A new knowledge list to support social care and health service providers working with people with autism has been launched after extensive consultation across both sectors.
The Autism skills and knowledge list has been developed jointly by Skills for Care, Skills for Health and the National Autistic Society after consultation with over two thousand people including health and social care professionals, commissioners and managers.
The consultation included around 150 people who have autism and over 800 family carers who made their views known by completing a survey, attending focus groups or commenting on draft materials.
The list will enhance, across both settings, awareness of autism and improve skills among workers in generic health and social care services. This work is part of a wider range of on-line training resources funded by the Department of Health to increase awareness and understanding of autism across all public services.
Individual workers, or services and teams, can use the list to work out whether they have the knowledge and skills needed to provide a good service to people who have autism.
It will also be useful for people who are arranging or providing training to workers. The list will support people with no knowledge and experience of autism, as well as those with existing knowledge about autism including lived personal experience of having autism or being a family carer to a person with autism.
Professionals in the training field will also find an accompanying document, Implementing the autism skills and knowledge list through staff training and development, useful in helping them to co-ordinate future activity in this area.
Getting it right for people with autism – the research behind the “Autism skills and knowledge list”, describes the process followed to develop the skills list and is now available.
http://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/developing_skills/autism/autism_skills_and_knowledge_list.aspx
How to support people with Autism
Produced by RCN Publishing in partnership with: BPS, DH, NAS, RCGP, RCN, RCPsych,
Skills for Care, Skills for Health, SCIE, University of Oxford
Adapted with kind permission from a poster provided by the Estia Centre
Valuing People Now is the Government’s three-year strategy to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families.
It covers all aspects of life, including health, housing, getting a paid job, personalisation, transition, advocacy, hate crime and relationships.
The delivery plan sets out the governance structure and the actions, with timescales and responsibilities, that will be taken to support the implementation of Valuing people now. Click on the links below to view the delivery plan
On 22 April at 9pm, BBC3 will launch a new season of autism programmes. The season has come about due to the popularity of ‘The Autistic Me’, a documentary first broadcast last August.
The first film is a follow-up to ‘The Autistic Me’, called ‘The Autistic Me: One Year On’. It revisits the people who were in the original documentary to see how their lives have progressed.
Scenes in the documentary include a meeting with MP Theresa May at Westminster to discuss the NAS ‘Don’t Write Me Off’ campaign and a session at the National Autistic Society Hertfordshire Resource Centre.
Other programmes include:
The Autistic Driving School: Thursday 29 April, 9pm
Autism, Disco and Me: Thursday 6 May, 9pm
Autistic Superstars: Thursday 13 and 20 May
For more information about the BBC autism season,visit the BBC website.
‘Young, Autistic and Stagestruck’, currently airing on Mondays at 8pm on Channel 4, follows a group of young children and teenagers with autism as they are brought together to produce a drama production. It also follows them and their families at home and while going about their daily lives.
You can find out more about ‘Young, Autistic and Stagestruck’ on the Channel 4 website.
Towards fulfilling and rewarding lives: the first-year delivery plan sets out the governance structure and the actions, with timescales and responsibilities, that will be taken in the first year to support the implementation of ‘Fulfilling and rewarding lives’: The first year delivery plan for adults with autism in England
The Government’s vision is that ‘All adults with autism are able to live fulfilling and understands them. The first autism strategy for England states – They can get a diagnosis and access support if they need it, and they can depend on mainstream public services to treat them fairly as individuals, helping them make the most of their talents.’: The strategy for adults with autism in England (2010)
The IX International Congress Autism-Europe takes place between 8-10 October 2010 in Catania, Italy. This year’s congress is called ‘A Future For Autism’.
http://www.autismeurope2010.org/
The Congress aims to diffuse the most up-to-date evidence-based scientific knowledge and reliable information in the field of autism and influence policies and care within a contemporary approach to disability.
A new generation of researchers and operators in the field of autism will once again have the opportunity to present the features of their work in group poster presentation sessions chaired by keynote speakers.
As such, Autism-Europe is calling for original papers characterized by their scientific content and significance, social value, originality and impact on the quality of life of people with autism and their families.
Congress Topics:
Neurosciences & Cognitive Functioning, Neurobiology, Epidemiology & Genetics, Treatment, Education & Services.
Keynote Speakers:
David Amaral, Simon Baron-Cohen, Thomas Bourgeron, Ernesto Caffo, Eric Fombonne, Joaquin Fuentes, Patricia Howlin, Ami Klin, Catherine Lord, Franco Nardocci, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Sally J. Rogers, Sebastiano Russo, Sir Michael Rutter, Renato Scifo, Rutger Jan van der Gaag, Fred Volkmar/
Visit the Congress website for more information about the rules for abstract submission and online abstract submission.
The quality rating for this service is 2 stars this means that people who
use the service experience good quality outcomes.
What the service does well:
A warm and welcoming atmosphere is evident on entering the care home and
we can see that people using the service and staff maintain good relationships.
People using the service tell us that they are very happy living at the care
home and that they enjoy their lives and the activities that they do.
Before people are admitted to the care home an in depth assessment process
takes place to make sure that staff are able to meet people’s needs.
Staff actively listen to and support the decisions and choices of people using
the service in order to improve their quality of life and promote their independence. They have individual and flexible lifestyles, which meet their
needs, preferences.
People using the service are supported by staff to take risks as part of an
independent lifestyle.
People using the service receive personal support in the way that they prefer
and their health care needs are assessed and monitored to ensure that they
remain well.
People using the service are assured that their concerns will be acted upon and
that they are protected from abuse.
People using the service live in a very well maintained and comfortable
environment.
People using the service are supported by a well trained staff team who are
aware of their roles and responsibilities.
People live in a home that is well managed and run in their best interests
What has improved since the last inspection?
Not applicable as it is a new service.
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Channel 4 looking for young people with autism for documentary series.
Channel 4 has commissioned the production company ‘Love Productions’ to make a ground breaking series of documentaries entitled `Bright Young Things’, which will give young people with autism the chance to take part in a unique artistic project encompassing music, dance and drama.
The documentary, to be broadcast in early 2010, will follow a cast of people with autism, aged between 11 and 25 years old, their families and professionals, as they devise and stage a brand new show, to be performed in London’s West End in January 2010.
Channel 4 believe that this series can raise awareness and understanding of ASDs in an intelligent and accessible way. The project will enrich and celebrate the unique skills and talents of people with autism; it will be positive and life-affirming and we hope it will show what it is like to live with this complex condition.
If your family would like to be involved, please contact Nonie Creagh-Brown at ‘Bright Young Things’ Love Productions, 43 Eagle Street, London, WC1R 4AT. Email Nonie Creagh-Brown for an application form, closing date is 07th June 2009.
The Department of Health is conducting research into the numbers of adults with autism and transitions challenges for young people. If you would like to have your say in the consultation process, please go to their website.
The strategy will look at the needs of all adults with autism from across the spectrum (including Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism). The DoH is in consultation with individuals and will be producing a publication of its findings at the end of 2009.
The Department of Health is conducting research into the numbers of adults with autism and transitions challenges for young people. If you would like to have your say in the consultation process, please go to their website. The strategy will look at the needs of all adults with autism from across the spectrum (including Asperger [...]
The Department of Health is conducting research into the numbers of adults with autism and transitions challenges for young people. If you would like to have your say in the consultation process, please go to their website. The strategy will look at the needs of all adults with autism from across the spectrum (including Asperger [...]
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