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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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  • All the evidence points to NAS - or those running it, see it as a business not a charity. While my calculations may be wrong, I do not understand totally about the full running costs, but the amount of money to me is obscene and what is gets spent on seems to me to be mainly things that are not tangible.

    People want help, that should be the main focus. Raising public awareness may not be a bad thing but what matters more to someone with an ASD ? - that he can get help or that the public are aware of his condition ? The same goes for the awards ceremonies, lectures, speeches, campaigns, theres just nothing tangilble, theres no bricks and mortar yet with that huge amount of money I am 100% sure even just a few dozen Autism centres could be set up in the major cities at least. They surely cannot cost that much out of such an astronomical budget.

    There are thousands of people suffering while those who are supposed to be helping them and are gathing funds in the name of doing so, are failing them.

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  • All the evidence points to NAS - or those running it, see it as a business not a charity. While my calculations may be wrong, I do not understand totally about the full running costs, but the amount of money to me is obscene and what is gets spent on seems to me to be mainly things that are not tangible.

    People want help, that should be the main focus. Raising public awareness may not be a bad thing but what matters more to someone with an ASD ? - that he can get help or that the public are aware of his condition ? The same goes for the awards ceremonies, lectures, speeches, campaigns, theres just nothing tangilble, theres no bricks and mortar yet with that huge amount of money I am 100% sure even just a few dozen Autism centres could be set up in the major cities at least. They surely cannot cost that much out of such an astronomical budget.

    There are thousands of people suffering while those who are supposed to be helping them and are gathing funds in the name of doing so, are failing them.

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