{"id":1893,"date":"2013-11-07T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autismwales.org\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2020-09-29T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:14:15","slug":"follow-up-on-the-autism-policy-conversation-what-does-itmean-for-practice-research-families-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neurodivergencewales.org\/en\/news\/follow-up-on-the-autism-policy-conversation-what-does-itmean-for-practice-research-families-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow up on the autism policy conversation &#8211; What does itmean for practice, research, families and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tOn Wednesday 6th November the lead policy officials from Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland took part in their first online discussion about the developments in legislation, funding and strategies for delivering services for people with Autism. &#8211; See more at:<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/groups\/policy-research-practice\/698\/four-uk-lead-policy-officials-autism-big-conversation#sthash.olOaDHB6.dpuf\">http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/groups\/policy-research-practice\/698\/four-uk-lead-policy-officials-autism-big-conversation#sthash.olOaDHB6.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>\n\tA message from Professor Sue Leekam , Director of the Wales Autism Research Centre<\/h1>\n<p>\n\tMany thanks to Michael Swaffield (England) , Alistair Davey (Wales), Maura Briscoe (N. Ireland) and Annette Pyle (Scotland) for joining together to create the Policy event. The Conversation has helped to connect the communities of policy, practice and research. We welcome other coordinated conversations across the UK nations in the future, as online the four agreed to meet again in a few months&rsquo; time in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs a follow-up to this event and to open up views from all stakeholders (practice, families, researchers, policy workers), we have drawn together below some of the themes that emerged over the hour of conversation. We are keen to encourage on-going and new discussion which can be forwarded on to the policy officials. Key to this is simply to communicate what is going on in different geographical locations, in the UK but also beyond &ndash; please do share information and opinion on what works and what needs work.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere are some issues we identified. Feel free to continue the discussion on these or other issues. It is easy to login to join the discussion, email us if you have any problem&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAutism strategic planning, what drives it?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tWhat are the challenges and barriers to implementing policy<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAutism Awareness &ndash; how do you really raise it?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tIs autism training adequate?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEvaluation of autism strategies: being accountable<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEffective policy making? How do you know?<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAdults and infants &ndash; where should policy be directed?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tSee more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.com\/groups\/policy\/708\/policy-leading-and-big-conversation\">http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.com\/groups\/policy\/708\/policy-leading-and-big-conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/groups\/research-practice-policy\/709\/follow-autism-policy-conversation-what-does-it-mean-practice\">http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/groups\/research-practice-policy\/709\/follow-autism-policy-conversation-what-does-it-mean-practice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you have any queries about the Autism Research, Policy &amp; Practice Hub then please get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<br \/>\n\tPlease have a look at the site. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/\">http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/<\/a> and if you are new to the Hubsite please follow the link to &#39;How to use this site &#39; from the Home page.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBest Regards<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLynda<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLynda Morgan<br \/>\n\tESRC \/Welsh Government : Developing a Research-Policy-Practice Hub for Autism Spectrum Disorder Project Manager (Offline) My working da ys are Tuesday &#8211; Thursday .<br \/>\n\tIf you have any enquiries. Please contact myself or Louise White (<a href=\"mailto:WhiteLJ2@cardiff.ac.uk\">WhiteLJ2@cardiff.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPlease see our latest discussions on the Autism Research-Policy-Practice Hub <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/\">http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n\tTwitter: @WARC_Cardiff<br \/>\n\tFacebook : WARC<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tWales Autism Research Centre<br \/>\n\tSchool of Psychology<br \/>\n\tTower Building<br \/>\n\tPark Place<br \/>\n\tCardiff University<br \/>\n\tCardiff CF10 3AT<br \/>\n\tTel:&nbsp; +44 (0)2920870711<br \/>\n\tEmail: <a href=\"mailto:morganl30@cardiff.ac.uk\">morganl30@cardiff.ac.uk<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 6th November the lead policy officials from Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland took part in their first online discussion about the developments in legislation, funding and strategies for delivering services for people with Autism. &#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.autismrpphub.org\/groups\/policy-research-practice\/698\/four-uk-lead-policy-officials-autism-big-conversation#sthash.olOaDHB6.dpuf A message from Professor Sue Leekam , Director of the Wales Autism Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Follow up on the autism policy conversation - What does itmean for practice, research, families and - Niwrowahaniaeth Cymru | Neurodivergence Wales | National Neurodivergence Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/neurodivergencewales.org\/en\/news\/follow-up-on-the-autism-policy-conversation-what-does-itmean-for-practice-research-families-and\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Follow up on the autism policy conversation - What does itmean for practice, research, families and - Niwrowahaniaeth Cymru | Neurodivergence Wales | National Neurodivergence Team\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Wednesday 6th November the lead policy officials from Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland took part in their first online discussion about the developments in legislation, funding and strategies for delivering services for people with Autism. &#8211; 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