Learning Disability news

71% of autistic adults in England aren't getting the support they need. This could mean up to 327,000 autistic adults aren’t getting help to do things other people take for granted, like socialising, managing money, or getting out and about.

Chancellor Sajid Javid's Spending Review promises to inject £1 billion into social care.

The parents of a pupil living with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and sensory processing difficulties have successfully won a case against their child’s independent prep school, Ashdown House, for an unlawful discriminatory exclusion.

A group of Loughborough University academics have been awarded funding to examine how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as the Amazon Echo, help people with disabilities live independently and explore how they may shape the future of social care.

An increasing number of children with a learning disability or autism are living in inpatient units. 

Tim Cooper, chief executive of the learning disability charity United Response, has given a measured response on behalf of those his organisation supports.

The first scientific study of compensatory strategies — techniques to camouflage autism — has been published.

The number of children with autism and learning disabilities living in mental health wards has doubled since the initiation of the Transforming Care programme designed to deliver community alternatives.

For the first time, the government has pledged to work with the Office for National Statistics to include autistic spectrum conditions on the Labour Force Survey.