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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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  • What we are supposed to be seeing is greater awareness across public services.

    There's a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police on the "what do they know" website (www.whatdotheyknow.com/.../autism_asperger_training_of_metr  hand copied so may not work). It ran throm May to December 2011, initially with the Met being very cagey about what training was being provided. They just said they had an officer who had been commended for his training insight on autism.

    Eventually in August 2011 they came up with a course outline. It was on mental ill health and learning disability awareness, and had no autism related content. It was mainly about mental health behavioural issues in public and in private.  I guess to the police autism is just a different word for mental.

    Pressed to address autism independently they came up with a modified course outline 6 weeks later which had a short text by someone called Robyn (Robyn talks about her experience of Asperger's Syndrome), referring to sensory overload issues and literal understanding. They also provided a few paragraphs about the triad of impairments. One is left wondering whether this had ever been in the course but just scraped up to provide an answer.

    However since June this year someone called Katherine Godsell, Psychological Services, seems to be providing Metropolitan Police training (over two days), but as its an advertisment, it isn't revealing about what is being taught. Would be great if it was progress.

    But wasn't the £0.5m grant supposed to have provided material to this end?

    An Independent Commission on Mental Health and Policing criticised the police for lack of training in mental health issues, but we're still not talking autism here.

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  • What we are supposed to be seeing is greater awareness across public services.

    There's a dialogue with the Metropolitan Police on the "what do they know" website (www.whatdotheyknow.com/.../autism_asperger_training_of_metr  hand copied so may not work). It ran throm May to December 2011, initially with the Met being very cagey about what training was being provided. They just said they had an officer who had been commended for his training insight on autism.

    Eventually in August 2011 they came up with a course outline. It was on mental ill health and learning disability awareness, and had no autism related content. It was mainly about mental health behavioural issues in public and in private.  I guess to the police autism is just a different word for mental.

    Pressed to address autism independently they came up with a modified course outline 6 weeks later which had a short text by someone called Robyn (Robyn talks about her experience of Asperger's Syndrome), referring to sensory overload issues and literal understanding. They also provided a few paragraphs about the triad of impairments. One is left wondering whether this had ever been in the course but just scraped up to provide an answer.

    However since June this year someone called Katherine Godsell, Psychological Services, seems to be providing Metropolitan Police training (over two days), but as its an advertisment, it isn't revealing about what is being taught. Would be great if it was progress.

    But wasn't the £0.5m grant supposed to have provided material to this end?

    An Independent Commission on Mental Health and Policing criticised the police for lack of training in mental health issues, but we're still not talking autism here.

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