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Autism Awareness - funded research

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The Government has provided £0.5 million to 8 research initiatives to advance autism awareness.

Seven of the 8 (according to the NAS website under:the autism strategy an overview - autism awareness and training - government commissioned autism awareness training) have produced outcomes of various kinds.

The eighth is NAS which just gives a link back to the page explaining the autism strategy.

NAS is the one heading up the PUSH FOR ACTION campaign. What was the NAS funded research outcome, and why is there nothing set against the NAS contribution in that part of the website?

The Royal College of Psychiatrists and British Psychology Society seem to have produced E-learning packs which as yet I haven't found a way into to find out what they say - I probably have to buy one to see what its about.

Oxford University interviewed 37 people on the spectrum and other groups of parents, siblings and grandparents. Not altogether clear what they found out. Skills for Health/Skills for Care carried out widespread consultation, whatever that means in practice? But they all have something allegedly productive to say, except NAS.

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  • One of the research institutes is SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence). Their contribution is supposed to be on their website but I cannot readily find it. There is a section Improving Access to Social Care for Adults with Autism which has a subsection on "Awareness Training" Guide 43, which just gives six reasons why awareness training is key, but where is the training?

    The Royal College of Nursing has produced a guide, or at least its one they had prepared in 2011 "The Autism Act 2009: developing specialist skills in autism practice" This looks really good until you realise it is mostly about people severely affected who do not have spoken language ability, which is important, but is this covering the whole range of adult experience.

    RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) worked with a primary care research charity DIPEx, to produce "a training resource which is restricted to individuals registered with the RCGP" - with Government money! That's just an insult!

    The Royal College of Psychiatrists provide a course with your peer group if you register for it (presumably pay for it and I guess "peer group" means fellow members). Government funded?

    So how was the £500,000 spent? Beats me.....

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  • One of the research institutes is SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence). Their contribution is supposed to be on their website but I cannot readily find it. There is a section Improving Access to Social Care for Adults with Autism which has a subsection on "Awareness Training" Guide 43, which just gives six reasons why awareness training is key, but where is the training?

    The Royal College of Nursing has produced a guide, or at least its one they had prepared in 2011 "The Autism Act 2009: developing specialist skills in autism practice" This looks really good until you realise it is mostly about people severely affected who do not have spoken language ability, which is important, but is this covering the whole range of adult experience.

    RCGP (Royal College of General Practitioners) worked with a primary care research charity DIPEx, to produce "a training resource which is restricted to individuals registered with the RCGP" - with Government money! That's just an insult!

    The Royal College of Psychiatrists provide a course with your peer group if you register for it (presumably pay for it and I guess "peer group" means fellow members). Government funded?

    So how was the £500,000 spent? Beats me.....

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