Lauren Price

A care support worker is accused of leaving his client — who has severe autism — in the back of a car on a 40C day while he was allegedly inside a shopping centre buying groceries with the client’s cash.

Police say officers were forced to break into the car after finding the 26-year-old client — who is non-verbal — “visibly distressed” and “heat affected”.

It is alleged the care support worker left the man in the back seat of his parked car at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre on January 13.

NICHOLAS FINCH

Police had to break into a car to rescue a “visibly distressed” severely autistic man who was allegedly left locked in a car by his carer for nearly an hour at a Perth shopping centre on a sweltering day.

Western Australia police officers rescued the 26-year-old man – who lives with severe autism and is non-verbal – after a passer-by saw him in the car parked outside at Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Centre in Perth at 2.30pm on January 12.

Australian mining company Mineral Resources (MinRes) has announced a partnership with Edith Cowan University and Bus Stop Films (BSF).

BSF is a film school for young adults living with disability or autism. The accessible film studies course runs for around 40 weeks, teaching the practical hands-on skills necessary for all aspects of filmmaking.

A 17-year-old boy with autism spent 99 days in a country hospital after he was evicted from supported accommodation as a result of complaints about damage from the landlord and neighbours.  

Bethany Hiatt

Locations have been revealed for eight extra schools set to be added to the list of WA public schools offering a specialist program for children with autism spectrum disorder.

The rollout of the program, which provides intensive support to students who have been diagnosed with autism but do not have an intellectual impairment, will start mid-next year with two schools, Hampton Park Primary and Hampton Senior High School.

Giulia Bertoglio

As a boy, Devin O'Sullivan took pleasure in ripping things up, so it was unsurprising that starting a paper-shredding business became his first career step.

Ryan Young

A psychologist who threw water at a 12-year-old boy with autism and said older students would pummel him has learnt her fate.

A Perth psychologist who was allowed to continue working despite receiving a conviction for assaulting a child with autism in 2014 has finally been suspended from practising.

Agni Angelkovska was the director of psychological and counselling services at the prestigious Christ Church Grammar School when a magistrate found she “lost the plot”.

Eleanor Beidatsch

For some people with autism, speech is no more detectible than background noise, like the sound of a passing train.

Claire Sadler

"It was a half hour bus to the station, a 15 minute train to Rockingham, a half hour bus to Kwinana bus port, and then another hour bus out to the Rockingham, Fremantle Naval Yard then there was a half hour walk from there."

Those are the words from Alex Hutt, explaining his over two hour journey just to get to his previous unpaid work experience.