Autism Care Provider Welcomes NAO Report on Supporting Adults With Autism and Calls on Government to Take Immediate Action

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Brookdale Care, one of the UK's leading providers of residential support services for people living with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), has welcomed the publication of the NHS Information Centre's Report Autism Spectrum Disorders in adults living in households throughout England, which draws from data gathered in the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2007. The Report, which is the first of its kind in the world, highlights the prevalence of ASD in the adult population.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Commenting on last night's BBC Three documentary which followed the lives of three young people living with Autism and Asperger syndrome ('The Autistic Me', BBC Three, 9pm, 11th August 2009), Lesa Walton - Care & Development Director of specialist Autism care provider Brookdale Care - said today: "The programme makers and especially the three young people living with Autism and Asperger syndrome featured in the documentary are to be congratulated on aiding public understanding of Autism and associated Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), which affect one in every hundred people in the UK. "As the documentary showed, three of the biggest challenges that people living with ASC face are the transition from adolescence to adulthood, social integration and acceptance and finding employment.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - Commenting on today's speech by Conservative Party Leader Rt Hon David Cameron MP at the Research Autism Conference in London, Lesa Walton - Care & Development Director of specialist Autism care provider Brookdale Care - said today: "Brookdale Care is delighted that David Cameron chose to draw special attention to the issues surrounding Autistic Spectrum Conditions today. We hope that Mr Cameron's speech represents a landmark day for Autism and its social importance.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, the UK's largest union, today (Tuesday) welcomes the BERR Select Committee report entitled 'Post offices- securing their future', but expresses disappointment that the committee has not been bold enough in recognising that a bank based at the Post Office would only deliver a number of the points that the committee acknowledges in its report. Paul Reuter, Unite National Officer responsible for the Post Office, said: "This is a good report which acknowledges that there should be no more branch closures.

June 23rd, 2009 ANDOVER, England - Raman Sankaran, Sales and Marketing Director for Simplyhealth comments on the Independent Review of NHS Dentistry in England. "The long awaited independent review into NHS dentistry in the UK has called for a much more preventative approach to dental provision in the UK.

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - The Department of Health's Specialist Advisor for Autism, Elaine Hill, has publicly urged practitioners, service users, their families and the general public to submit their views and case studies to the Government's consultation on a National Autism Strategy at a national conference on the mental health needs of people with ASC that took place in London on Wednesday 17th June 2009 sponsored by autism care services provider Brookdale Care. One in 100 of the population of the UK has an Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), yet there still remains minimal awareness of the condition, poor access to diagnosis and gaps in service provision.

April 28th, 2009 LONDON - Specialist provider of residential support services for people living with Autism and other Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Brookdale Care has announced that the 23-year-old Manager of its Eynesbury House care home, Andrew Fairman, has become the youngest ever person to achieve the NVQ Level 4 Leadership and Management for Care Services Award. The NVQ Level 4 Award, formerly known as the Registered Managers Award, is designed to provide Home Managers with the vital skills and knowledge required to run a home and care for people with complex needs.

April 23rd, 2009 SAN MATEO, California - Message of Hope Considered 'Too Important Not To Be Heard' Horn Productions, Inc. announced today that "Light of Hope: Help for Children with Autism," the first-ever internet telecast focused on autism recovery, will debut internationally on Friday, April 24, Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26 at www.findingthewords.org during the final week of World Autism Awareness Month, and will be co-sponsored by the CEOs of two Silicon Valley software companies: NetSuite Inc.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Brookdale Care, the independent provider of residential care services for people living with Autism and other Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), is inviting MPs and care commissioners to spend a day with residents and staff at four of its residential locations in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and North London, as part of a campaign to raise understanding of Autism and ASD in conjunction with World Autism Awareness Day on 2nd April, 2009. World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) was first instituted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 with the aim of raising awareness about Autism and ASD in every member state.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, Britain's biggest union, has welcomed the successful second reading of the Statutory Redundancy Pay Amendment Bill which would increase to GBP500 a week the amount of pay used to calculate compensation for workers made redundant. Unite the union is calling on the government to introduce the measure through the forthcoming budget.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - A new piece of research suggests that when it comes to learning new behaviours, autistic kids rely more on their own internal sense of body position rather than external cues, typically used by developing children. The study conducted by researchers from Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine showed that greater the kids relied on their internal sense of body position (proprioception), the greater was their impairment in social skills, motor skills, and imitation.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - Watching how a tot reacts to cartoons could help spot autism, according to a new research. It is already known that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes.

April 6th, 2009 LONDON - Gwyneth Paltrow has come under fire from health experts after she warned shampoo could lead to cancer. The actress said her concerns arose after she read research about what she calls 'environmental toxins', which are found in products such as shampoo and lotion.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - They might be fond of chanting 'I don't care' slogans every now and then, but deep down inside younger adolescents or "tweens" care a lot about what others think about them, a new study has found. The study confirmed this using brain-mapping techniques that shed new light on this complex period of social development.

May 11th, 2009 Obama's Day: Health care, basketballWASHINGTON — Reforming the health care system to make it affordable for all Americans is one of President Barack Obama's top priorities. Obama plans to talk Monday about a health care industry offer of $2 trillion in spending reductions over 10 years to help pay for the program.

September 15th, 2009 Rationing or better care for disabled kids?WASHINGTON — A group of parents who oppose President Barack Obama's plan for revamping health care said Tuesday it would lead to rationing for children with life-threatening disabilities. National advocates for the disabled immediately rejected the claim that echoed this summer's dispute over "death panels." The parents voiced their concerns at a news conference in front of the U.S.

August 8th, 2009 Yemen welcomes US detainee release, calls for moreSAN'A, Yemen —The Yemeni government welcomed on Saturday the release of two Yemenis jailed in the U.S. over terrorism charges, and called for the return of those still held in Guantanamo Bay prison.

April 30th, 2009 Fla. boy flies to Calif. without telling parentsBOCA RATON, Fla.

March 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Recognising faces comes to us as easily as breathing, but how this is done has been a source of abiding mystery in neuroscience and psychology. Now an MIT study led by an Indian American says we recognise faces because a person's eyes appear darker than the forehead and cheeks.

June 9th, 2009 UK hacker asks judges to stop extradition to USLONDON — A British man accused of hacking into U.S. military computers is asking a court to halt his extradition to the United States.