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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new comprehensive quality standard designed to improve the diagnosis and assessment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
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Autistic people are over-represented at gender clinics, but there is limited research on autism and gender dysphoria to guide clinical practice, according to new research.
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The right of people with Down's syndrome to have an independent love life with access to sexual health information is the theme of a new campaign launched by Italian charity CoorDown for World Down Syndrome Day 2022.
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Prisoners with learning disabilities face "daily and routinely" hidden harms due to inaccessible prison structures that are ignorant of impairment, finds a new research paper.
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Ampleforth College, a boarding school in North Yorkshire where a third of its pupils have special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), has been deemed inadequate by Oftsed.
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Ambitious about Autism has launched a new online platform for autistic young people that will provide a safe and moderated online space to help them understand their autistic identity and reduce isolation and loneliness. 
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A new report addressing the soaring level of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) cases being taken to tribunal has received widespread criticism.
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A judge in the Court of Protection has ruled that an autistic teenager with a rare kidney disease should be allowed to receive a potentially life-saving transplant. 
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Remote cognitive behavioural therapy could be an effective intervention for comfort eating in people with a learning disability, according to new research.
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Every local council must keep to fixed legal time limits when reviewing the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disability (SEND), according to a new High Court judgement.
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