An ACT study of mental health care provider organisations suggests the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is failing to achieve some of its core aims for persons with a lived experience of severe mental illness.

In a survey reporting on the transition to the NDIS, researchers from The Australian National University's Centre for Mental Health Research found the transition to individualised funding brought significant distress and uncertainty for care provider organisations in the mental health sector.

My daughter came into the world in dramatic fashion in November 1994.

Key points:

• Tracey Stewart had no idea her daughter was autistic
• She was not diagnosed until the age of 23
• Doctors say girls mask symptoms, making diagnosis harder

I had been hospitalised with pre-eclampsia and she was delivered via an unplanned caesarean at very short notice.

Claire Campbell and Alice Dempster

The drowning of a carer could have been avoided if the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) had responded to requests for a second carer for an autistic boy, a South Australian MP has claimed.

Jessica Hinchliffe

Clay Lewis spent two years trying to find part-time work before he decided to start his own business, one that's now so successful he's had to hire extra staff.

"I was trying to get a job at a fast food restaurant but I wasn't successful," the 16-year-old with autism said.

So after some local market research and number crunching, Clay opened a bin-cleaning business with his mother Laura's help.

This is a snippet from my book, All Across the Spectrum, that you can pre-order here.

CARLY CASSELLA

Putting yourself in another person's shoes is never easy, and for those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the practice is thought to be especially challenging.

Yolanda Redrup

The company has filled a variety of roles in fields such as software engineering and cyber security, which the bank's executive general manager of technology and transformation, Andy Weir, said people on the autism spectrum often had a natural aptitude for.

The father of a young child filmed riding on a car’s roof rack in Perth’s suburbs says the four-year-old is autistic and any parent would understand how difficult children can sometimes be to control.

Police today charged a 36-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, with dangerous driving over the incident.