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?
I don’t know.
2.
What are the most difficult things about getting a diagnosis?
I don’t know.
3.
Do you think that the local authorities and health services should
have to give out information about how to get an autism
diagnosis?
I don’t know.
Questions about improving the way
people get support services
1.
Do you think services at the moment are good enough for people with
autism?
NO. It is good but not great, there is
improvement all the time.
2.
Do you think the law should say that there must be guidance on how
to deliver services 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.
Services 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
services
d.
How to plan for autism services
e. Who should
be in charge of the organisation of autism services?
Do you agree that the guidance
should say something about the things listed above?
YES
Is there anything
else that you think should be in the guidance?
People who are in charge of organising autism
services should know about Autism: for example, organisations such
as the NAS rather than Local Authorities. Move-on service plans
should incorporate the understanding of Autism and the
understanding of the induvial.
4.
Do you think local authorities and health services should have to
collect information about people with autism so they can make
better plans for services?
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?
They talk to: doctors; social workers; NAS;
parents and people with Autism.
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?
They need training on how to talk to service
users about their (SU)’s background e.g. a staff member
talking/asking question to the servers user around the topic of
‘backgrounds’ (social and economic class). Family is a
more important topic than what other life experiences you’ve
had.
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
Everybody working
with people with Autism should have training.
OR
b.
That key staff should get autism training. The law would not say
anything about what they should know.
NO
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?
Give them support and advice on: their Autism
in the job; get qualification for the job; get paid, they should
have money for their care and be able to get paid; the type of jobs
they may like; specific support in areas where needed but not all
of the job; and advice on how to dress for work.
18. 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 ☐