NDTi has substantial experience and a proven track record of specialist experience in independent strategic review, research, policy development, evaluation and change support. We work alongside stakeholders including people who use services to deliver real, long term improvements for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health problems of all ages
“Without NDTi we wouldn't have had this Autism Strategy” – Autism service user representative, Lincolnshire. NDTi worked with colleagues across social care, health, education and the non-statutory sector to develop an all-ages Autism Strategy for Lincolnshire.
Recent national policy and guidance promises to transform the lives of people living with autism and autistic spectrum disorders.
NDTi developed best practice commissioning guidance based on the Mansell report principles, and outlines what commissioners need to do to develop local services, with the right skills, that deliver better outcomes for people and save money.
Our work is led and shaped by Autistic Experts and Associates lived and professional experience of neurodiversity which is still very much misunderstood in health, social care and education settings.
Our team, led by our highly skilled Autistic Associates, carry out environmental sensory assessments in hospitals.
Internships Work is a partnership between NDTi, BASE and DFN Project SEARCH to enable 4500 young people with additional needs gain a supported internship each year by 2025.
This small research project gathered the experiences of people with learning disabilities and autistic people who had experienced social prescribing and those working as social prescribers or link workers. We have found a breadth and depth of ways that social prescribing can benefit people and their local communities.
Small Support organisations are being set up in different parts of the country; if you have been directed to this page, you are likely living in one of those areas
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