If you are interested in knowing what advice the NDIA sought and received about autism from its selected and secret Autism Advisory Group (AAG) we're here to let you know ... the NDIA won't tell you.
The NDIA's Freedom of Information (FoI) process in this instance has been a total farce. The law says FoI requests should be processed in 30 days. But not in this case.
A specialised Victorian day care that one parent credits with teaching his autistic sons how to play says it will end dedicated classes for children with autism next year due to changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The government agency that implements the NDIS said the scheme would continue to fund early childhood intervention and supports to help children participate in early education.
Study co-authors Wah Chin Boon, left, and Anne-Louise Ponsonby of the Florey Institute. Inset: The effect of plastic chemical bisphenol A on the body, showing decreased spine density (red dots) and shortened neurites. Picture: Nadir Kinani
Parents of child with autism who was locked in a school bike yard by a staff member are demanding to know why they were not informed until almost three months later, despite it being serious enough to warrant three separate investigations.
The parents were told that on May 7 their son, who is Indigenous, climbed into an unlocked outdoor bike storage facility at his ACT public primary school.
