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What has the NAS achieved for children with Asperger Syndrome?

Arran

Can anybody compile me a list of everything the NAS has achieved for children with Asperger Syndrome (not traditional autism or speech and language delays) since the year 2000? Things like residential care services and running autism schools that do not offer the services such children require do not count. Also factor out things where the NAS initially had success in but have clearly been eclipsed by developments elsewhere, ranging from books from JKP to parenting forums on the internet.

Try to be precise rather than vague in your submissions.

Parents

  • Why ask us? Its a simple enough research task. Simplest way might be if anyone keeps back copies of "Communication" (What is now called Your Autism).

    Failing that a more scattergun approach is to search websites like Guardian and BBC News for each year. For example BBC News in 2000 covered the NAS Inclusion & Autism Report which identified that 1 in 5 children with autism were excluded at least once (20%), compared to 1.2% for the general pupil population.

    Then you have to have some means of weighing up whether NAS made a difference. And if they didn't is that the fault of NAS for not being effective, or just the entrenched unprogressive attitude of the world outside.

    I suspect things haven't changed that much.

    The trouble is you are asking a question about absolutes in situations where NAS may be pretty well powerless do do anything more than point out the outrages.

    I think personally that NAS frequently loses impact from having contradictory and ambiguous information on their website.

    But to be fair I think you have to compare like with like here

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  • Why ask us? Its a simple enough research task. Simplest way might be if anyone keeps back copies of "Communication" (What is now called Your Autism).

    Failing that a more scattergun approach is to search websites like Guardian and BBC News for each year. For example BBC News in 2000 covered the NAS Inclusion & Autism Report which identified that 1 in 5 children with autism were excluded at least once (20%), compared to 1.2% for the general pupil population.

    Then you have to have some means of weighing up whether NAS made a difference. And if they didn't is that the fault of NAS for not being effective, or just the entrenched unprogressive attitude of the world outside.

    I suspect things haven't changed that much.

    The trouble is you are asking a question about absolutes in situations where NAS may be pretty well powerless do do anything more than point out the outrages.

    I think personally that NAS frequently loses impact from having contradictory and ambiguous information on their website.

    But to be fair I think you have to compare like with like here

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