📣⭐ The petition is live! Sign the petition today & together let’s Speak Up for Autism.

Speech Therapy is failing autistic children & 100s of lived experience stories have shown this to be true – change is long overdue. 💔

Autistic individuals deserve specific Speech Therapy sessions to support their communication styles, needs & preferences which is currently just not happening over & over again. This is devastating for autistic individuals & their families which affects mental health, life chances, education, connections & overall happiness to name just a few.

This campaign calls to make additional autism-specific training mandatory for all prospective & practising NHS Speech Therapists. The training would ensure autistic individuals have their specific Speech, Language & Communications needs met & give Speech Therapists the confidence to recommend, refer & support an autistic individual’s communication needs. This would include augmentative & alternative communication, language processing & understanding of speech disorders such as Apraxia – with a specific focus on how these impact & relate to autistic individuals.

Change is long overdue.

📣 Sign the petition today. 🌈
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📣 Please share your Speech Therapy lived experience if you haven’t already done so.

Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/764248

📸: By @murphys_sketches