News (Autism)

Advanced Occupational Therapist, Katherine Russell, reflects on her 6 months working within a Neurodevelopmental Assessment Clinic

The Henry Smith Charity, a grant-making trust, is launching a new grants programme to support advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending school A subtitled video of the webinar from May 2021 by Dr Ruth Moyse. Children who stop attending school are often called truants or school refusers, placing the reason for their absence as a problem within the child. This session proposes a different way of interpreting their absence, by sharing lessons learnt from research with 10 autistic girls who stopped attending mainstream secondary schools.

This three-part podcast addresses the common questions young people with additional needs have about applying to, choosing and attending university.

A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views

A few weeks ago, Ann Memmott (autistic expert and NDTi Associate), Jez (Bethany’s Dad) along with other colleagues at NDTi shared Bethany’s story. This is a story that truly reflects the power of partnerships – in this case, partnerships with autistic experts, family and others

Hi, my name is Conor. I’m 23 and an autism advocate, public speaker and occasional mental health consultant. Yeah that last one still amazes me at times, actually they all do

Often, an autism diagnosis comes with an apology. I was lucky. My experience was positive – and was very different from what I’ve heard from many other autistic people.