In January the National Autism Project published a report The Autism Dividend: Reaping the Rewards of Better Investment. The report focuses on the lack of cost-effective and effective care for autistic people in the UK and calls for national governments to implement recommendations which are based on evidence-based practice. It...
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SWAN Shortlisted for National Diversity Awards!
SWAN are absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for a National Diversity Award! A huge thanks to everyone who nominated us. We are in the Community Organisation Award for Disability category and you can view all the other nominees here: http://www.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/shortlist/.
SWAN at the Batik Workshop
Kasia of SWAN describes a recent SWAN activity: “A few Saturdays ago some of us took part in a Batik workshop led by Amy from Autistic Initiatives. Batik is an art using wax painted on silk and then dyes used to paint a picture. We had 3 hours to accomplish...
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Thank you to all who attended yesterday's - international! - webinar on Autistic Identity with Chloe Farahar Âû 🦢🦢🦢
Great article from a late-diagnosed Australian autistic woman in the Guardian this week:
"Autism isn't just a medical diagnosis, it is part of our identities, and when autistic people ask you to go the extra mile in learning about and understanding how we think differently, we’re not asking for anything we haven’t done for allistic people all our lives"
'At 47, I discovered I am autistic – suddenly so many things made sense'
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Other people’s lives always seemed more effortless, but it took my daughter’s autism diagnosis to realise whyHad our attention brought to this:
www.facebook.com/autisticparentsUK
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Autistic Parents UK is a non-profit unincorporated association set up by a group of Autistic parents. Our vision is to build a collaborative community offering a range of no-cost, accessible options of mutual peer support for Autistic parents in the UK.Please do ask any questions you have on my presentation for SWAN on Inclusive working practices and Human Rights or my conversation with John Scott QC on the work of the Independent Advisory Group to the Scottish Police Authority during COVID Cat@SwanThe Eighth Annual Strategy for Autism Conference team will be live streaming a Q & A session with selected speakers via Facebook on Friday 30th October at 1.00pm.
If you have any comments or questions on any of the conference presentations which you wish answered , please send them to autism.network@strath.ac.uk (FAO Lesley Evans), no later than midday on Friday 23rd October.
