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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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  • I wonder if NAS spent it's share on the Push for Action Campaign? If autism affects 1% of the population, there should be 0.54 million people with autism in England.

    The Push for Action campaign has so far netted 8,915 pledges of support in England. That's 1.65 (ie less than 2) pledges per 10 people with autism.

    Not great impact. But what does it mean anyway?

    One of the Push for Action objectives was in Training and Awareness. The section on "What is the issue?" talks about people not actually understanding the whole spectrum and how it affects most people differently. They then say "most people will cite 'Rain Man' and assume that all autistic people are the same as the character in the film".

    So what is NAS doing to rectify this image?  Judging by their fact sheets we all closely fit the Triad of Impairments. Many of the things that affect people daily aren't covered by this, and any reference to even some of these is inconsistently dispersed through some of the factsheets four or five levels down in the website.

    Using just the Triad of Impairments gives the impression we are all the same. And the Triad of Impairments is a pretty close match to Rain Man.

    Surely better training and awareness needs to start with NAS. And so far over the last few days my comments on the NAS factsheets has produced zero response.

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  • I wonder if NAS spent it's share on the Push for Action Campaign? If autism affects 1% of the population, there should be 0.54 million people with autism in England.

    The Push for Action campaign has so far netted 8,915 pledges of support in England. That's 1.65 (ie less than 2) pledges per 10 people with autism.

    Not great impact. But what does it mean anyway?

    One of the Push for Action objectives was in Training and Awareness. The section on "What is the issue?" talks about people not actually understanding the whole spectrum and how it affects most people differently. They then say "most people will cite 'Rain Man' and assume that all autistic people are the same as the character in the film".

    So what is NAS doing to rectify this image?  Judging by their fact sheets we all closely fit the Triad of Impairments. Many of the things that affect people daily aren't covered by this, and any reference to even some of these is inconsistently dispersed through some of the factsheets four or five levels down in the website.

    Using just the Triad of Impairments gives the impression we are all the same. And the Triad of Impairments is a pretty close match to Rain Man.

    Surely better training and awareness needs to start with NAS. And so far over the last few days my comments on the NAS factsheets has produced zero response.

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