Autism Bill

[gromitdoo]

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can everybody who has a loved one or knows someone on the autistic spectrum go to the following website and campaign for the Autism Bill. It will make a tremendous difference to our lives and our children's lives. THANK YOU!

http://www.campaigns.autism.org.uk/ea-campaign /clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=10&ea.campaign .id=2285

[mrs_overall]

I've done it. Fingers crossed the bill goes through.

[R1Geezer]

Ok I've read the link but I still can't figure out WTF an "autism" bill will do. It all seems very vague, can someone tell me in what such a bill seeks to achieve or even how it may even be worded, cos I'm bleedin clueless on this at the moment!

[jake-the-peg]

http://www.autism.org.uk/content/1/c6/01/65/01 /Adults%20with%20Autism%20Bill.pdf

It mostly seeks to make sure councils have a specific person or body with responsibility for the disorder and that there is sufficient training in the NHS

[chinadog]

Done!!

[gromitdoo]

THANK YOU mrs_overall, jake-the-peg & chinadog for filling up the petition.

I cannot stress enough that at present when a young person with a disability leaves school there is NO guarantee that there will be any support to either see that young person through Transition from Children's to Adult Services, or that those who on paper have the responsibility of helping will meet their responsibilities to ensure that the young people have the best start to a promising, fulfilling and enjoyable future!

I have a lot of friends who have children on the autistic spectrum and who have been failed by the system and their young person is between the ages of 16 - 25 and the adult and their families are experiencing great difficulties including depression.

Hopefully this Autism Bill will bring about positive changes in their lives and also in our lives in the future when our little ones are older.

[Beanmistriss]

Have done. An excellent cause gromitdoo :o)

[chinadog]

Yeah tell me about it gromitdoo!!

[cazzz1975]

I happy to support anything that highlights autism in the country

[gromitdoo]

THANK YOU Beanmistriss & cazzz1975 for filling up the petition. The more people who fill up the petition the better and hopefully we will be able to help our children live better and more fulfilling lives in the future.

[Ice.Maiden]

I'm also happy to support a Bill which helps to support and understand those with the distressing condition, and those of us who care for anyone who has it.

[gromitdoo]

THANK YOU, Ice.Maiden for filling up the petition. For all those who might be members of an autism support group, please can you get your fellow members to fill up the petition too as at last count the NAS reported that they only had 38 MPs willing to support it and they had to have a minimum of a 100. So we still have a long way to go if we want to see any change.

[Mamyalynne]

I have submitted also, my grandson is on the spectrum and want all that is possible for him and all others to be there as a right.

[Schutzengel]

Done it!

[gromitdoo]

THANK YOU mamyalynne & Schutzengel for filling up the petition.

[trish432]

Just done it, my grandson is also on the spectrum, years to be diagnosed and no real help since.

[lilacben]

I have done it. Just hope someone will sit up and take notice. My granddaughter is 11 going on to 12 this august she has had trouble for years but when my daughter takes her to the doctors they do not make anything of it. It is such a shame as people think she is just a nasty naughty girl but I am sure there is something wrong. She has never been able to keep friends and now in secondary school again appears to have no friends.She has trouble with all her lessons and has no concertration at all. At home she just has awful trouble with her temper for no reason. Look forward to seeing something being done.

[brenda]

Just done it ---know how autistic children and adults can suffer in an uncaring , selfish world.

[gromitdoo]

THANK YOU trish432, lilacben & brenda
for filling up the petition.

lilacben I am so sorry about the plight of your grand daughter. But she and your daughter are not alone. There are times that I feel too that it is only me and my lil' boy against the whole world trying to tell them that he won't fit into their mould. To me, I feel sometimes that the world is trying to fit him into a round hole and he is a square pipe and it is like talking to walls to get anything done.

If you are in London there is a group called YASS! (Young Autistic Spectrum Socialising) and the lady who runs it is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. She too has a young adult on the autistic spectrum so she knows what we are going through. And she organises lots of activities during half term and school holidays for children so that families do not feel left out or isolated. I would definitely recommend her.

[gromitdoo]

lilacben, I have got some websites which are very helpful for children on the autistic spectrum

http://www.resourcesforautism.org.uk/links.htm

http://www.resourcesforautism.org.uk/REACHOUT_ FLYER2007.pdf

http://www.ipsea.org.uk/

You can get the telephone no for YASS! from the first one and contact the lady. Her name is Christine Marchesi and she is really, really good. All the best!