AAT Case Management Guide Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA)  - see below) fails some of the youngest and most severely autistic NDIS participants. Clinicians advise that some children with severe/profound or classic autism need intensive early intervention for their autism. NDIS policy (see below) says funding for the required early intervention depends on families winning a case against the government in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT ..read more

Urgent reform is needed to ensure the NDIS is able to deliver on its primary objective, which is to provide a dignified life for Australians with a profound disability. Cost blowouts that make the scheme unsustainable must be addressed and top of the list is to cull benefits being paid to people for whom the scheme was not devised ..read more

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Studies show that people with joint hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS), and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) have a higher likelihood of being autistic than would be expected by chance ..read more

Newsnight’s Science and Technology Correspondent Kate Lamble reports ..read more

Urgent reform is needed to ensure the NDIS is able to deliver on its primary objective, which is to provide a dignified life for Australians with a profound disability. Cost blowouts that make the scheme unsustainable must be addressed and top of the list is to cull benefits being paid to people for whom the scheme was not devised ..read more

From Fern Brady to Hannah Gadsby, a host of comedians have discovered that they are autistic. What is it about standup that lends itself so well to neurodivergent people ..read more

From Fern Brady to Hannah Gadsby, a host of comedians have discovered that they are autistic. What is it about standup that lends itself so well to neurodivergent people ..read more

The AHRC fielded 111 complaints about schools breaching the Disability Discrimination Act last year, compared to 79 in 2022 ..read more

AAT Case Management Guide Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA)  - see below) fails some of the youngest and most severely autistic NDIS participants. Clinicians advise that some children with severe/profound or classic autism need intensive early intervention for their autism. NDIS policy (see below) says funding for the required early intervention depends on families winning a case against the government in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT ..read more

It is alleged the care support worker left the man in the back seat of his parked car at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre on January 13 ..read more