Many families and autistic individuals have raised concerns over early deaths in autistic people. Ground-breaking new research now confirms the true scale of the mortality crisis in autism: autistic people
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A £10 million research programme is to investigate why autistic adults are dying decades before their time. The five-year project planned by the charity Autistica follows a bombshell study from
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Researchers from Ulster University and National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway have been awarded €295,000 to develop a weight management model for young adults with intellectual disabilities. It aims to
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The parents of an autistic teenager who has endured a six-month “jail sentence” in a psychiatric ward have slammed his “inhumane” treatment, calling it an “abuse” of his human rights.
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NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – is consulting on draft recommendations aimed at helping people with learning disabilities who are experiencing mental health problems. Approximately
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Mencap in Northern Ireland opened a brand new £4.6m purpose built centre for children with a learning disability and their families, the first of its kind for Mencap in the
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A Mencap support worker has been suspended after a photograph emerged apparently showing shopping bags piled on her client’s wheelchair, close to his face. The learning disability charity said it
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An autistic teenager will be moved to a specialist facility after more than 150,000 people backed a petition by his parents to end his six-month “jail sentence” in a psychiatric
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A national autism service is to be set up in Wales, the Welsh Government has announced. Officials say the new service will offer a more “joined up” approach – bringing
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A Sheffield Hallam University lecturer in autism studies has won a national award in recognition of the way his research and teaching has influenced public understanding of the condition over
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