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Caring for an adult with autism

Rob Jackson


I am considering an offer to help care for an adult with autism for a local family.

This will be a paid, part-time position working approx 15 hours a week.

The family has asked that I work on a self-employed basis.

While I have worked on a voluntary basis with children and adults with learning difficulties on a voluntary basis for many years, I am not a 'professional' carer, in that I have no qualifications in the field. The family is aware of this.

The care involved will be largely activity-based (sports and games, art, reading, cooking, shopping, learning ABA, socialising, transport to activities) and there is no specific need for personal care or medication.

I wondered if:

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there might be an off-the-peg carer's contract I could use

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whether insurance might be necessary and, if so, whether I would need to provide that insurance or the employer?

Many thanks Slight smile

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  • in reply to Fibonacci Squid

    Shares it's origin with the conversion therapy they used to use to deny LGBTQ+ folk their sexuality and which has mercifully now been banned.  ABA to me seems like the NT world just trying to knock the autism out of us because that makes them feel better irrespective of how much damage that does to the autistic person. 

    The only time it looks to me to even have the smallest grain of ethical application is as a last resort if you have to address a behaviour like not eating.  But that would be for an extreme situation where it's eat or die, I'd think.

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