AUTISM NEWSLETTER MARCH 2019 COMMENT

Hospitals hold up Two-thirds of mental health trust leaders are concerned about the effectiveness of Transforming Care to help people with learning disabilities return to communities More

Train JAM Virgin Trains has become the first travel company outside of Northern Ireland to introduce a ground-breaking initiative for people with communication barriers. The JAM card More

Is it autism? The UK's leading autism charity claims that as many as one in five people with eating disorders could be autistic. More

Stretching autism A project taking yoga classes into schools has helped children with social and emotional challenges, according to a head teacher. More

Essential learning Up to 2.8m social care and health staff will have to undertake mandatory learning disability and autism training, teaching them to 'challenge attitudes and unconscious bias', under new government proposals. More

OCD or Aautism? Autism and OCD frequently accompany each other; scientists are studying both to understand how they differ. More

Driving discrimination Seems like the DVLA have their seat-belts in a twist over autism! More

Pull the other one! So do autistic people even have a sense of humour? A new BBC podcast, 1800 Seconds on Autism, aims to dispel that no-humour myth, among other assumptions - with razor-sharp wit running through it. More