The National Autism Project has now come to a close but work will continue through the National Autistic Taskforce and it is hoped that interest can be extended to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Continue ReadingIan Ragan reflects on recent National Autism Project events and how the current political instability has frustrated efforts to gain support for positive action and policy changes.
Continue ReadingWe have a full programme of work right up to the end of the project including a 'drop-in' at the House of Commons, a forum meeting and a farewell event.
Continue ReadingWe are entering the final 6 months of the project. Continuing political uncertainty in the UK has required us to be flexible with our plans for this period.
Continue ReadingMarch and April were largely devoted to planning our strategy for the last year of the National Autism Project.
Continue ReadingThe minor miracle of completing the draft NAP report in December was repeated in January and "The Autism Dividend: Reaping the Rewards of Better Investment" was launched as promised on 17th January.
Continue ReadingTwo months of extraordinarily hard work now see us on the threshold of our main objective - the publication of NAP's report "The Autism Dividend: Reaping the Rewards of Better Investment".
Continue ReadingNAP is now in its busiest period ever with the report to write, workshops to hold and launch meetings to organise.
Continue ReadingThe research work at LSE is now just about completed and the equally hard work of turning this into a report and recommendations has now started.
Continue ReadingWe have been concentrating on publicity and communication, building our contact list and accepting invitations to speak about the National Autism Project.
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