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[5] Furthermore, according to the UK Office for National Statistics, the unemployment rate of autistic people may reach 85%, the highest rate among all disabled groups studied. It is noted that in many countries autism is not a disability protected by anti-discrimination employment laws, and this is due to many corporations lobbying against it. [6]
The Autism Act 2009 (c 15) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act makes provision about the needs of adults who have autistic spectrum disorders including autism and Asperger syndrome .
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (APPGA) is a group of backbench members of the British Parliament and Peers interested in autism spectrum disorders.The Chair Marie Tidball MP and Officers are elected by the Members of the Group at an annual AGM.
The longest waits were for children needing speech and language therapy with 3,458 waiting more than a year, and 13,859 children waiting more than a year for community paediatrics which covers ...
The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, [17] [18] [16] and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. [19] Nevertheless, the anti-vaccination movement continues to promote myths, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking the two. [20]
“So 30 years ago, we had, I’ve heard numbers of like one in 200,000, one in 100,000,” he said in terms of how many children are diagnosed with autism. “And now I’m hearing numbers of one ...
In the UK, the National Autistic Society (NAS) handed over a petition to the British government on 21 February 2017, signed by 30,000 people, calling for the employment of autistic adults to be made a priority. [26] The Malakoff-Médéric foundation opens a specialized French site at the end of 2018. [27]
The popular book Population One: Autism, Adversity, and the Will to Succeed [22] was released by 17 year old American author Tyler McNamer in August 2013. In the UK, April 2014 saw the BBC broadcast an episode of Horizon entitled "Living with Autism", featuring Uta Frith. [23] [24] The French novel La Surface de reparation was released in 2015.