The National Autistic Taskforce came into being thanks to a generous, open, unsolicited gift from Dame Stephanie Shirley. We are doing our best to spend it wisely and to maximum effect. We have been given a truly free hand to do what we can towards improving services for autistic people, specially those with highest support …
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Governance and structure The National Autistic Taskforce (NAT) has made significant progress since its inception at the beginning of 2018. The NAP Autistic Advisory Panel (AAP) was expanded to create the NAT strategy board (SB), ensuring representation from the four nations. NAT has been established as a company limited by guarantee (CLG). A shared online …
Read More NAT Progress Report – Summer 2018This is the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ detailed statement of their responsibility to upskill the workforce and share their knowhow. We think a development of this policy focussing on training for a new support work role of Communications lead such as that exemplified by Katie Nurse’s is a reasonable first step to …
Read More Source guidelines: SLT responsibility and NAT campaign for digital inclusionI am very proud of our report The Autism Dividend: Reaping the Rewards of Better Investment, not only because it is probably the most comprehensive and evidence-based piece of work ever carried out in the field of autism research but also because of the attitudes and values it uncovers and the deep social and cultural issues it exposes in our thinking about autism and autistic people.
Read More “The Future I’d like to see” – Elizabeth Vallance