POSTnote on autism (public)

Members of AutreachIT and the London Autistic Rights Movement group met with the authors of the Autism POSTnote in December 2007, and subsequently reviewed the draft note, suggesting significant changes.

“POST is the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, the UK Parliament’s in-house source of independent, balanced and accessible analysis of public policy issues related to science and technology. POST publishes POSTnotes (short briefing notes) and longer reports. Both focus on current science and technology issues and aim to anticipate policy implications for parliamentarians.”

The summary of POSTnote 302 – Autism on the POST website is:

“Autism affects how a person communicates, socialises and interprets the world. This can lead to wide ranging difficulties in every day life including forming relationships and living independently. Recent evidence that autism is more prevalent than previously recognised has put pressure on service providers and highlighted the need to train professionals to improve awareness of autism. This POSTnote describes autism and autism research, and considers policy approaches.”

(Autreach group members commented on an earlier draft summary, prior to the writing of the POSTnote.)

Bev Harp’s response to the NAS “Think Differently About Autism” campaign, distributed at the POSTnote consultation meeting:

Note: Below is an abbreviated public version of the page used by Autreach group members to coordinate work on the consultation — some text has been omitted and some documents are not publicly accessible.

Add updates here (reverse chronological order)

Autreach group member was one of the invited speakers at POST parliamentary seminar “Adult autism and policy”

The finished POSTnote has been published — congratulations everyone.

POSTnote 302: Autism (4 page pdf, 113KB)

Writeboard with versions for draft, response (consolidated amendments), and final publication. Versions can be compared to highlight changes.

[Documents not public]

Intermediate versions of response moved to private page (so that this page can be shared with POST).

Writeboard translation of draft now ready for review: edit here, or request individual copy of writeboard, or copy to own Backpack page, or download to use other software, or…

[Documents not public]

[Drafts not public]

[This page has been moved from the AutreachIT site]

[Audio record, agenda, and other documents not public]

Audio recording of meeting

Agenda

Documents circulated

Hypothetical redraft of POSTnote summary

AutreachIT Manifesto

Links

Sample POSTnote: ‘Dyslexia & dyscalculia’ [PDF, July 2004]

Mental Capacity Act Code of Practice [PDF 1.7MB, 302 pages]