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Australia has its first assistant minister for autism and is crafting its first national autism strategy. How the rest of society steps up will be crucial.
There are over 200,000 Australians with an autism spectrum condition. But lack of healthcare training and understanding is leaving many of them without quality care.
Learn to promote your own good mental health, celebrate individuality, strengths, and skills associated with autism, and recognise when you may need extra support. This course provides autistic people and those around them with the knowledge and skills to navigate the relationship between autism and positive mental health outcomes.
Learning you're autistic as an adult can be fraught with challenges, but these people are determined to embrace their autistic identity.
We see a lot about the challenges and limitations associated with autism – but less about the real strengths autistic people bring to the workplace. Here’s how to make workplaces more autism-friendly.
During lockdown, many psychologists and therapy sessions moved online. But while telehealth was positive for some, it proved problematic for people like Issy.
It's been 25 years since autism was redefined and the surge in diagnoses and research began. But while we've come along way in our understanding of the spectrum, advances in drug therapies has lagged.
University of South Australia research revealed internationally many parents feel first-line medical staff often dismiss their autism concerns.
Until Tom Cutler was diagnosed with Asperger's in his 50s, learning to handle social situations felt like learning a new language.
People with ASD are dying at rates twice the rate of the general population, a landmark Australian study has found.
The number of adults with autism diagnoses is soaring, but there aren’t enough programs and services to meet the demand.
AN Australian-first initiative to increase support for dementia carers has started in Horsham.
The city is one of 12 locations across Victoria, South Australia and NSW involved in the Virtual Dementia Friendly Rural Communities project, known as Verily Connect.
The program uses a smartphone app, website and videoconferencing to help connect people caring for those with memory loss and dementia. The aim is for this online support community to help reduce challenges such as distance and isolation.
To complement the online technology, trained volunteers in each location will provide support.
Current rules about who meets the eligibility criteria for autism support services are patchy and inconsistent, meaning those with the greatest need don't necessarily have the greatest access.
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Autism is no longer just a clinical diagnosis. For many, it’s an identity, a community and a cause.
Troubling numbers of physical restraint are being used on vulnerable children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
Though little studied, exhaustion among people with autism has become its own pandemic.
A reignited debate centres around whether broadening the diagnosis of autism has made the diagnostic label no longer entirely fit-for-purpose.
You never know what someone might be struggling with, writes Sheree Somers. These are her tips for what you can do to help autistic people find the world a little easier.
Mel Baggs, whose forthright writings and films about being a nonverbal person with autism made an impact in the fields of neurodiversity and disability rights, died on April 11 in Burlington, Vt., at age 39.
Anna Baggs, Mx. Baggs’s mother, said the cause was believed to be respiratory failure, though numerous health problems may also have played a part.
Mx. Baggs, a vigorous blogger, used the term “genderless” as a self-description. “I like that it just means lack of gender, and has no spoken or unspoken secondary meaning,” read a 2018 entry on the blog “Cussin’ and Discussin’: Mel being human in a world that says I’m not.” Many friends and admirers posting about Mx. Baggs’s death on social media used gender-neutral pronouns, while others used the traditional feminine ones.
After a lifetime of saying the wrong thing and obsessing over road signs, author Tom Cutler finally received a medical opinion that made sense
A new study has found a link between being born by caesarean section and having a greater chance of being diagnosed with autism or ADHD. But there's no evidence caesarean sections cause them.
Thirteen-year-old Eden has been taking antidepressants for almost half his life — and he's not alone. The number of Australian children and teenagers on antidepressants has risen by almost 60 per cent in the past five years.
People on the autism spectrum have elevated mortality across the lifespan – their overall comparative mortality rate is about twice that of the general population, a new study reveals.
Unlike Australia, New Zealand doesn't fund early intervention therapy for autistic children, but there are programmes pre-school teachers and parents can use to help kids develop.
Wanting to change a person’s autistic behaviours is like attempting to correct left-handedness or sexual preference. The modern workplace should see strength in difference.
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