Questions about getting a better way to diagnose Autism
1. What do you think about how easy it is to get an autism
diagnosis where you live?
(A diagnosis is when a doctor looks at a
person's health and behaviour and says whether they have autism or
not.)
2. What are the most difficult things about getting a
diagnosis?
3. Do you think that the local authorities and health services
should have to give out information about how to get an autism
diagnosis?
YES
Questions about improving the way people get support
services
1. Do you think seivices at the moment are good enough for
people with autism?
YES
2. Do you think the law should say that there must be guidance
on how to deliv1seivices for people with autism?
YES
3. I think there should be guidance. I think the guidance
should say:
a. How to
organise getting an autism diagnosis
b.
Seivices cannot turn people with autism away because they have a
high IQ
c. There
should be plans for people with autism moving from child to adult
seivices
d.
How to plan for autism seivices
e. Who should
be in charge of the organisation of autism seivices?
Do you agree that the guidance should say something about the
things listed above?
YES
Is there anything else fhat you think should be in the
guidance?
4. Do you think local authorities and health seivices should
have to collect information about people with autism so they can
make better plans for seivices?
YES
6. Do you have any ideas about the best way to collect
information about people with autism?
For example, information about how many people have autism and
what their support needs are?
Question about autism training for staff
1. Do you have any views about the autism training that staff
working with people with autism already get?
2. Do you think the law should say:
a. What the
staff who work with people with autism should know and be able to
do after their training?
YES
OR
b. That key staff
should get autism training. The law would not say la.ihing about
what they should know.
YES
Questions about jobs for people with autism
17. Do you have any ideas about what should happen to help more
people with autism get jobs?
Questions about the definition of autism
Where do you think the definition should be written? Please
tick 1:
a. On the
Bill ☐
b. In the plan for
autism ☒
c. In the
guidance ☐
d. I don't think it
should be included ☐