The Isle of Wight council is working with Autism Inclusion Matters and People Matter Isle of Wight to host a series of workshops to speak to autistic people, their family and friends about our local Autism Strategy.
We would like to hear from autistic people to help develop the Isle of Wight Autism Strategy.
Sessions have been planned to find out what matters to autistic people and their family and friends. We are only working on the adult part of the strategy at the moment.
What will it be like?
Each session will have a room for autistic people and a separate room for family and friends. If you need somebody with you to support communication, it is okay for them to stay in the same room.
We will have large sheets of paper that ask the following questions:
- What has been tried?
What are the services that exist or existed in the past? Has anyone done anything or tried anything to make things better? Is there anyone in another part of the country that did something awesome that we could try? - What have we learned?
Did we learn anything from the projects or the things that were tried? - What are we pleased about?
What is good, what are the things that are going well and we want to carry on? - What are we concerned about?
What are the things that aren’t good, what has been difficult or upsetting? - What do we do next?
What do I need to do?
You can either talk to the facilitators who will write, or you can write on post it notes or paper. If you don’t want to answer the questions you can just tell us about your issue or idea.
Book your spaces via the Website.
Gaudion: People can engage in a number of ways
Laura Gaudion, Director of Adult Social Care and Housing Needs said,
“It’s really important to us that our strategy reflects the thoughts and feelings of the people it seeks to support. I’d encourage autistic people, their family, and friends to come along to one of the sessions.”
“The sessions will be structured, and people can engage in a number of ways; if they’re comfortable to talk or write and raise any issues or ideas that they have.”
“My thanks to our partners AIM and People Matter for supporting these workshops to give our community a voice.”
News shared by Isle of Wight council press office, in their own words. Ed
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