NICE seeks to improve autistic people’s health and wellbeing (1 August 2017)

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A new recommendation from NICE (the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence) seeks to improve autistic people’s experiences of GP services in England. It encourages GPs to record someone’s autism diagnosis, in a step that The National Autistic Society believes could help to tackle the unacceptable health inequality faced by autistic people.

More information from the NAS here:

http://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/media-centre/news/2017-08-01-nice.aspx

Development of Pict-O-Stat: Violence – Focus On Experiences of Violence and a Survey That Can Be Completed by the Individuals Themselves

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The purpose of this paper was to find a method that makes it possible for people with intellectual disabilities to independently contribute to population-based research on sensitive subjects. It is important to be able to answer questionnaires independently in sensitive research areas because the participant may not want to ask for help in answering a questionnaire about sexual violence, domestic violence, etc.

Kerstin Kristensen and Anders Möller (2017) “Development of Pict-O-Stat: violence – focus on experiences of violence and a survey that can be completed by the individuals themselves”, Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. 19 Iss: 3, pp.146-1557

For more from the Journal of Adult Protection please go here.

To access the paper via Care Knowledge go here:

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Women and autism: an interview with Charlene Tait

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Charlene Tait is Director of Autism Practice and Research at Scottish Autism. Charlene was interviewed for Network Autism when she attended the XI Autism-Europe International Congress hosted by the National Autistic Society in 2016.

In this video Charlene discusses Scottish Autism’s innovative new online support programme for autistic women and girls, their families and professionals. She explores some of the difficulties that autistic women and girls may face, particularly around diagnosis.

To access the interview follow the link:

http://network.autism.org.uk/knowledge/insight-opinion/women-and-autism-interview-charlene-tait?utm_source=AutismInsight10August2017&utm_medium=newsletter%2Femail&utm_campaign=AutismInsight10August2017&utm_content=Story1B&dm_i=YA3,53LLL,BV9SAA,JJMLZ,1