Full Description
This accessible guide to navigating all aspects of the law as an autistic person will offer helpful advice and useful resources, alongside an overview of the current research on the impact of being autistic from a legal standpoint.
Written by a leading author and researcher on autism with contributions from an autistic legal expert, this definitive handbook covers the legal rights of autistic children and adults and their families across the lifespan, offering guidance on accessing relevant services interspersed with significant case studies. Aimed at families, professionals and anyone interested in advocating the rights of autistic people, chapters will cover employment, the criminal justice system, bullying and harassment, sexuality, mis-medication and the rights of older autistic adults.
Contents
Foreword by Dame Stephanie Shirley
Introduction
1: Pre-assessment, diagnosis and obtaining the appropriate initial services
2: Education and the law
3: Mental capacity in autistic children and adults, deprivation of liberty and the law
4: Social care and the law
5: Autism and employment law
6: Autism and the criminal justice system
7: Autistic individuals, family law and the civil justice system
8: Other vulnerabilities in autistic adults and the law
9: Mis-medication, malpractice, quack 'cures' and the MMR
10: Autism in older people
11: Broader legislation
Index
