The UK National Autistic Society has published results of a survey, "I Exist", indicating that adults with autism in the UK are ignored and their needs are not being met. The survey results reveal a "stark and often desperate reality", with most adults with autism lacking necessary support and services and living ignored and in isolation.
Here in New Brunswick attempts are made to address the needs of adults with autism but they are, in many areas, grossly inadequate. Families whose adult members with autism live at home have inadequate support, staff in private group homes lack autism specific training, and we have no institutional level facilities to provide residential care for the most severely autistic who are not capable of living in a group home facility. In fact we export our autistic adults and youths to other provinces, even to the United States, in search of treatment.
In the UK and in New Brunswick we can do better for adults with autism, much better.
Here in New Brunswick attempts are made to address the needs of adults with autism but they are, in many areas, grossly inadequate. Families whose adult members with autism live at home have inadequate support, staff in private group homes lack autism specific training, and we have no institutional level facilities to provide residential care for the most severely autistic who are not capable of living in a group home facility. In fact we export our autistic adults and youths to other provinces, even to the United States, in search of treatment.
In the UK and in New Brunswick we can do better for adults with autism, much better.
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