AUTISM AWARENESS

Motion Text

That this House backs the call of Ivan Corea of the King's Fund to declare 2002 as Autism Awareness Year, aimed at raising the profile and the plight of autistic children across the United Kingdom; and urges local education authorities and National Health Service trusts to do more for Autistic children, including autists from minority ethnic communities and to review their educational and specialist speech therapy services in order to change policies where discrimination has taken place.