The Isle of Wight Council is working with Autism Inclusion Matters and People Matter Isle of Wight to host a series of workshops to speak to autistic people, their families and friends about our local Autism Strategy.
As part of the Autism Strategy, they would like to hear from Autistic People to help develop the Isle of Wight Autism Strategy.
Sessions have been planned to find out what matters to Autistic People and their family and friends. We are only working on the adult part of the strategy at the moment.
What will it be like?
Each session will have a room for Autistic people and a separate room for family and friends. If you need somebody with you to support communication, it is okay for them to stay in the same room.
We will have large sheets of paper that ask the following questions:
- What has been tried? What are the services that exist or existed in the past? Has anyone done anything or tried anything to make things better? Is there anyone in another part of the country that did something awesome that we could try?
- What have we learned? Did we learn anything from the projects or the things that were tried?
- What are we pleased about? What is good, what are the things that are going well and we want to carry on?
- What are we concerned about? What are the things that aren’t good, what has been difficult or upsetting?
- What do we do next?
What do I need to do?
You can either talk to the facilitators who will write, or you can write on post it notes or paper. If you don’t want to answer the questions you can just tell the council about your issue or idea.
Book your spaces at https://bookwhen.com/aimisleofwight
Laura Gaudion, Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Needs said:
“It’s really important to us that our strategy reflects the thoughts and feelings of the people it seeks to support. I’d encourage autistic people, their family, and friends to come along to one of the sessions.”
“The sessions will be structured, and people can engage in a number of ways; if they’re comfortable to talk or write and raise any issues or ideas that they have.”
“My thanks to our partners AIM and People Matter for supporting these workshops to give our community a voice.”
Laura Gaudion, Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Needs said: and I quote “It’s really important to us that our strategy reflects the thoughts and feelings of the people it seeks to support. I’d encourage autistic people, their family, and friends to come along to one of the sessions.”
Anything the council touches .. gets worse .. so far waiting 2 yrs for an assessment… and still no sign of news .. the system here on the Island is not fit for purpose .. year on year cuts and incompetence. Solution take it away from IWC and stop Politicians screwing things up.
There should only be one goal for these organisations.. “how can you ensure that the people you are referring to, can stand on their own two feet and support theirselves, without being dependent on others, as well as ensuring that you do not simply attempt to outsource the support required onto non autistic people who already work in businesses and services and are not related to those employees with autism or interested in caring for others.”
Crikey have you read a book on how not to be offensive? That’s the most reasoned and sensible thing you’ve ever written. I can see it’s in quotation marks, so either you’ve learned how to copy and paste, or somebody has hacked your account. @ISLANDER
no, all my messages are accurate…if you soft soaps find them offensive, then so be it
Straight over your head isn’t it, that people have differences and some may need support.
Don’t these “special cases” have families then??? Designer problem for a greedy age.
Whatever happened to the plain and simple ‘thick kid” who often went on to do well in life without all the hand wringing..
What a load of old drivel! Bunch of moronic hand wringers in a room asking people what they need. Stop wasting my council tax! Vast amounts of research have been conducted into the needs of autistic people. Go off and read some research and base your strategy on proper research with huge sample sizes rather than asking a handful of people what they want. This council is run by complete idiots.