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.
The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (Q&SC) quietly removed or hid its damning report on Behaviour Support Plan Quality: Summary results to December 2021 from its website.
A4 provides copies of the report here so it does not disappear from the internet.
Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), Bill Shorten, has proposed a number of policy changes to the scheme. It is hoped these will ensure its sustainability for future generations.
The DSM-5 (2013) and its update, the DSM-5-TR (2022), associate severity ratings with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The DSM-5 and the newer DSM-5-TR treat severity ratings for autism/ASD differently.
