Turning advocacy recommendations into action
NDTi’s 2023 advocacy review spurs work to create a new set of tools and resources. Join our focus groups to input.
Our team, led by our highly skilled Autistic Associates, carry out environmental sensory assessments in hospitals.
This is a ‘walk through’ of wards and living areas, meeting and treatment rooms where autistic people are supported. It is an assessment of the sensory environment focusing on practical changes that could be made to improve the building.
Our team make recommendations that will reduce the sensory load that inpatients may experience.
It is expected that if changes are made based on these recommendations, autistic people in these environments are less likely to be affected by sensory overload that can lead to meltdown or shutdown.
Providers have duty under the Equality Act 2010 to make reasonable adjustments for any disabled people, including autistic people, using their services.
Reasonable adjustments could include changing the physical environment in which care is provided to reduce the stress it causes to someone with autism or meeting the person’s specific communication needs. Without adequate sensory assessments and training around autism, these health services are less likely to make the necessary reasonable adjustments.
CQC: Review of restraint, prolonged seclusion and segregation for people with a mental health problem, learning disability and or autism, page 23
NDTi’s 2023 advocacy review spurs work to create a new set of tools and resources. Join our focus groups to input.
As part of our seasonal 12 days of human rights campaign, Nic Crosby, Lyn Griffiths and Amanda Nally share their thoughts around person centred planning. 12 days of human rights, day 2: Person centred planning...
Advocacy lead, Gail Petty, writes about the findings from a major new research report which reviews advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health settings.
We were asked to do some research about neurodivergent people's experience of homelessness. In this blog, research and evaluation officer Lauren Blood talks about the work.
Our Small Supports programme is hosting a series of lunchtime webinars in the Autumn.
Different languages, different histories, different cultures but all with the same challenges! Nic Crosby, Small Supports Programme Lead, reflects and compares some of the challenges across different countries in setting up small supports that enable...
Annie Smith, Delivery Lead for Community Led Support (CLS), tells us about some of the highlights from this year’s CLS annual Spring Festival.
Our annual two day spring festival returns for another year on 16 and 17 May. The festival is hosted by NDTi's Community Led Support network and, for the first time, has been opened up to...
We’ve just launched a brand new series of half day workshops on strengths-based approaches for anyone working in the social care and health sector.
To mark Autism Acceptance Week, we've produced a series of short films on making reasonable adjustments.
This report covers in depth research about advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.
Housing inequalities in the UK, such as rising rent costs and poor quality of housing, have been getting worse since the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis.
A free self-assessment toolkit to help you assess and manage your team's response to risk.
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was appointed as the independent evaluation partner of The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Trial in Learning Disability and Autism in partnership with bemix and My Life My Choice...
Digital learning through Covid – opportunities to redress inequalities through including people with learning disabilities in digital redesign plans NDTi is part of the Valuing People Alliance, which, in turn, is a member of the...
The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) was appointed as the independent evaluation partner of The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training Trial in Learning Disability and Autism in partnership with bemix and My Life My Choice...
In a world taught to think of autistic people as male children & adolescents, allegedly destined for a lifetime as costly burdens on parents and society, we have arguably lost sight of the majority of...
Here's the thing about finding out I was autistic in late middle age: I was born autistic, but because I didn't know, I’d never understood what it was about me that always set me apart...
When I was a child and struggling to cope in the inhospitable world, I had a dream about what my house would look like, when I was old enough to make my own decisions.
Content warning: this conversation starter includes reference to a recent death by suicide. If you need urgent support, you can contact SHOUT by texting 85258, or the Samaritans by phoning 116123 or emailing jo@samaritans.org. Both...
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