Autism and Intellectual Disability

This essential guide answers the questions parent carers have before and after a child's autism diagnosis and looks at how you can most effectively seek help from support services, family and your wider community.Written by a highly experienced author team with both professional and lived experience, this book will help you navigate social care, healthcare and education. It provides reliable advice on how to advocate for your family, and how to challenge services when necessary to get the best possible care for your child. There are practical strategies for those times when third party support is not available.With advice and summary points to dip in and out of as needed, you will learn how to work together as a family unit, creating a robust support system for your autistic child into their young adulthood.

Professor Sujeet Jaydeokar is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Professor in Neurodevelopmental Conditions with over 25 years' experience of working in mental health services. He is currently Director of Research within the NHS, Editor in Chief for the Journal of Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disability (@JnlAMHID) and Director for the Centre for Autism Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Intellectual Disability (CANDDID). Professor Jaydeokar leads on the PGCert in Neurodevelopmental Conditions at the University of Chester.Professor Christine Wee is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who specializes in neurodevelopmental conditions. She has over 20 years' experience of working in mental health services for children and young people. Dr Wee works on supporting the development of neurodevelopmental services in North West England and carries out voluntary work as a parent carer representative for her local Parent Carer Forum. She also lectures on neurodevelopmental conditions and neurodiversity at the University of Chester.Maddy Lowry is a senior NHS Manager with 25 years' experience working in primary, secondary and tertiary NHS services in England and Wales. Since 2017, she has been directly involved in leading strategic service change for autistic people and those with learning disabilities in the North West of England.