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Do further education disability departments receive Autism training?

stranger

Some of you may have seen a thread by me in Living on the spectrum.

Basically, I had a meeting on Tuesday with disability services at college to see what help they could offer me. It ended up with them and my support worker deciding that I'm not Autistic and I'm just lonely and need counselling. (ok, the last bit is true; but for a completely different reason) The argument was based on the fact that she thinks her father has it and I'm nothing like him. I can think of many people on the spectrum who I'm nothing like. And it's because I also don't have a proper diagnosis. No-one has actually said I don't have it either.

The college are running a course on Autism in June. Should be interesting to see what they get wrong...

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  • A subscript to this is the wider lack of public understanding of what disability means. In theory the DDA was supposed to get this across.

    Although rather unconnected with autism the red pull cord alarm in toilets is a good illustration of what tends to happen.

    The principal is that the chord hangs down to the floor, so that if a disabled person falls on the floor they can reach the pull chord to raise the alarm.

    However the pull chords are seen as a nuisance, especially by cleaners, so they get looped up so they are well above the floor, and therefore out of reach of someone who has fallen on the floor.

    I used to check all the toilets where I worked to spot and rectify situations where the chord was no longer within reach. I've even found this is a regular problem in hospital toilets.

    Some hospitals have introduced a plastic strip instead of a chord to prevent them being shortened.

    There hasn't really been that much progress in public understanding of disabled needs.

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  • A subscript to this is the wider lack of public understanding of what disability means. In theory the DDA was supposed to get this across.

    Although rather unconnected with autism the red pull cord alarm in toilets is a good illustration of what tends to happen.

    The principal is that the chord hangs down to the floor, so that if a disabled person falls on the floor they can reach the pull chord to raise the alarm.

    However the pull chords are seen as a nuisance, especially by cleaners, so they get looped up so they are well above the floor, and therefore out of reach of someone who has fallen on the floor.

    I used to check all the toilets where I worked to spot and rectify situations where the chord was no longer within reach. I've even found this is a regular problem in hospital toilets.

    Some hospitals have introduced a plastic strip instead of a chord to prevent them being shortened.

    There hasn't really been that much progress in public understanding of disabled needs.

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