Residents and staff from a Southern Housing care home in Ryde have been getting on their bikes to mark Autism Acceptance Week. The care home, located on Ryde’s Argyll Street, supports people with learning disabilities. They organised a 10km cycle on an exercise bike to raise awareness and funds. The riders were fuelled by tasty homemade cakes to celebrate the event and inspired by cheery decorations placed around the room. A total of £60 was raised, which will be donated to the National Autistic Society. Ashley Barrier-Close, Registered Manager at 22 Argyll Street said:
“Celebrating autism acceptance is not just about the individuals we support, it’s about coming together to truly change attitudes towards autism and promote acceptance.”
Autism Acceptance Week took place from 2nd-8th April this year. It aims to highlight the challenges and barriers faced by autistic people across society, in the health and social care systems, in education, in employment, and everywhere in between.
For those of you who work in healthcare, whether at the hospital or domicile, I urge you to subscribe to the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training.
The learning is designed into two stages: Tier 1 and Tier 2. Tier 1 involves e-learning and a one-hour webinar. Tier 2 is classroom-based face-to-face learning. Both are co-delivered by Experts with Experience, learning disability & autism.
Those working within the NHS ought to be aware of this mandatory training. However, many NHS Trusts across the UK have not been as forward-thinking as others and have yet to implement training for patient-centric staff.
If you work for the NHS and have direct contact with patients and are unaware of this mandatory training, speak with your boss.
No doubt this is a good thing. Nowadays though we have a huge amount of parents, saying that the kids they have are autistic when quite frankly they are not. They would rather pump the kids with drugs and cream off as many benefits as possible because “they can’t cope”
Yes, but what’s the relevance of the gay pride rainbow to this?
It seems to give the impression that Autism Acceptance Week is being hijacked by another, completely different cause.
A rainbow doesn’t always dictate gay pride Cathy! Didn’t they also use it to thank the nhs and carers during covid! Whatever the decorations consist of, think your just overlooking what the story is about. Even if it was there for that reason, who’s to say a LQBTQ+ resident didn’t chose it.