This website will take you through the process of identifying unique mental health symptoms in autistic people, referral to NHS mental health providers, the legal system, police and social services. The goal is to provide information and to raise awareness and build a grassroots effort to enable...
The following links are (1) a GP referral guide and (2) the procedure following referral for a podiatric assessment. The condition most certainly should NOT be put down to ill fitting shoes. http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/physiotherapy/paediatric/documents/GPreferralguidelinesleaflet.pdf http://www.bu...
There is a global need for brief screening instruments that can identify key indicators for autism to support frontline professionals in their referral decision-making. Although a universal set of conditions, there may be subtle differences in expression, identification and reporting of autistic traits ...
3. Having a child who struggles with any aspect of speech is not the fault of the parent. Did you know that the first thing that happens when you finally get a referral accepted by speech and language therapists is that they send you on a parenting course? The message very much seems ...
“The question of confidentiality has often arisen in Brian Deer's reporting of the Wakefield/Lancet affair. It arose implicitly in the allegations he made about the referral of patients (which seem to me to be of no account) at the outset of this affair but which ...
guidelines currently recommend that all those with a diagnosis of autism are screened for CNVs using chromosomal microarrays (Schaefer and Mendelsohn2013). In other countries including the UK, current guidelines (e.g. (“Overview Autism spectrum disorder in under 19 s: recognition, referral and diag...
families were directly referred to the study team by community-based maternal and child health nurses. Following referral, the child was administered the 12-month checklist of the Social Attention and Communication Surveillance-Revised (SACS-R; Barbaro & Dissanayake2010,2013; Mozolic-Staunton et al....
Clinically, this highlights that developmental monitoring and referral for early interventions should be considered by the age of 2 in children with NF1. Intervention targeting neurocognitive modifiers such as executive attention or social engagement may ameliorate the impact of genetic or environmental ...
74. NICE, Autism: Recognition, Referral, Diagnosis and Management of Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Guidance and Guidelines. National Institute of Clinical Excellence. 2012. Available online: https://www.nice. org.uk/guidance/CG142/resources (accessed on 14 January 2015). 75. NICE, Autism in...