Ageing With Autism 2019
Our Third Ageing With Autism Information Day was held on 16th October 2019 and we welcomed a variety of professionals, parents/carers and organisations.
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Pre-diagnosis Support. What’s that?
Pre-diagnosis support I may say to you and the normal responses I get is. What’s that?
(more…)Autism and Social Gaming Report – #WalkingForAutism
It all started back in January when I decided to write about some of the good experiances that I have had / seen whilst playing the Pokémon GO app, both through general play and whilst doing my job helping young adults out in the community. As I started to make this a reality I had a sudden thought that Niantic (the creaters of the game) might be interested in my experiances and also might be able to help us run a event locally as part of our Autism Awearness Week lineup.
I sent the e-mail in mid January and soon got a reply from someone the Niantic Partnership team that wanted to have a video chat with myself and our Operations Manager where we explained what our Charity does and some of our experiances with the game and how I had now started to write up a report on how the game had helped people that we worked with and also others in the local area.
During the video chat they confirmed that Niantic were going to support us putting on the #WalkingForAutism Event and that they were more then happy to put some in-game bonuses at a location of our choosing with the aim of showing support and doing some fundraising at the event. They have also offered to match donations made during the event (10am – 2pm GMT) which the money raised will be used by our charity for local projects for people living with Autism.
The event which is hapening on Saturday 6th April is called : #WalkingForAutism at Whitlingham Country Park, Norwich, the event will have the following in game bonuses, additional game locations (Pokéstops) along the walkways around the beautiful Whitlingham Great Broad. Trainers will also find that Lures last for hours and may see more Pokémon than usual.
I would like to also thank the amazing people from both the “Pokémon GO! Norwich/East Anglia” Facebook group and the “Pokémon GO! Norwich” Discord for the huge responce and input when I asked for some personal experiences to put into the report. (Sadly I could not use all of them in as the report would have been alot bigger)
The event page can be found here : #WalkingForAutism Event Page
Blog Posted By : Ben Thomas
Images Designed By : Ben Thomas
Thank you for reading our blog post, we look forward to seeing everyone at the event on Saturday.
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Family Voice Conference 2019
An information sharing day for parents/carers with over 40 information stalls, speed dating sessions and talks from professionals.
(more…)Government to launch new consultation on Autism Support
Autistic people, their families and those caring for them are being asked for their views on how care and support in England can be improved.
The call for evidence is part of the cross-government review of the national autism strategy, which will be refreshed and launched later this year. The strategy will be extended to cover children as well as adults, so services work better for autistic people of all ages.
Autistic people, family members, carers and professionals can all take part in the online survey. The government is asking people to provide their views on:
- how autistic people feel within their local communities and whether members of the public understand their needs
- whether autistic people, their families and carers receive the right support for all their needs at the right time
- how much autistic people are supported to develop their skills and independence
- where progress has been made, and where it still needs to be made
- what the key priorities should be for the future
People now have an opportunity to express their views on what is working and where more needs to be done to transform care and support. This could include:
- in school through support to access the curriculum
- at hospital through timely diagnosis
- within the community through respite care or support to enter the workplace
Supporting people on the autism spectrum or with learning disabilities is one of the 4 clinical priority areas in the NHS Long Term Plan.
“Autistic people must be at the heart of any improvements we make to their care and support. This is an opportunity to make a real difference to hundreds of thousands of lives. We want services from healthcare to education to work better for autistic people of all ages – it’s no coincidence that learning disability and autism are one of the clinical priorities in the NHS Long Term Plan.”
Minister for Care Caroline Dinenage
Children and Young Person Emotional Wellbeing Event
Today we attended the Children and Young Person Emotional Wellbeing Event at Long Stratton High school organised by Children’s Services.
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