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Autism online resource centre
The Department of Health funded a series of on-line training resources and booklets to increase awareness and understanding of autism across all public services.
The organisations below used this funding to produce a range of quality materials to enable frontline staff to better recognise and respond more effectively to the needs of adults with autism.
RCN Publishing
These links are available as free downloads for all healthcare professionals that may come into contact with people who have autism, highlighting key issues to consider.
National Autistic Society
The National Autistic Society website provides increased awareness and understanding of autism. It also details some of the examples of autism awareness training that currently exist.
British Psychological Society
The Society has developed three e-learning modules on autism, which appeal to a range of learners by delivering knowledge and understanding from introductory to specialised levels. Two modules are freely available to both members and non-members of the BPS and the third is aimed principally at psychologists and all professionals working in this field.
Royal College of GPs
The Autism in General Practice course enables you to improve the care you and your practice provide for patients with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC).
Please note: Registration is required to use these resources
If you encounter difficulties opening these links, please contact Membership Services on 020 3188 7766 or via email membership@rcgp.org.uk
Skills for Care and Skills for Health
Skills for Care and Skills for Health have developed a framework to guide the delivery of autism training for the mainstream health and social care workforces.
Social Care Institute for Excellence
This link looks at the techniques and skills that care workers and social workers need to support people with autism and help them achieve their goals.
University of Oxford
The Healthtalkonline website lets you share in other people's experiences of health and illness. This information is based on qualitative research into patient experiences led by experts at the University of Oxford.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists aims to engage in expanding knowledge about the psychiatry of learning disability and autism.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
If you encounter difficulties opening this link, please contact the Royal College of Psychiatrists on Tel: 020 7235 2351
Other resources
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published two clinical guidelines on the diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorders, including Aspergers syndrome.
Children and young people: Recognition, referral and diagnosis of autism spectrum spectrum disorders in children and young people - www.nice.org.uk/CG128
Adults: Recognition, referral, diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorders in adults - www.nice.org.uk/CG142
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.