by YDRF member Carla Morris I’ve always felt different, but I didn’t notice how different until secondary school. I loved to learn and devoted a huge amount of time and effort to the things I found interesting. But what I contributed in passion and enthusiasm seemed to be cancelled out by a complete lack of […]
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NHS England published their national framework and operational guidance for autism assessment services on 5th April 2023. David McAsey has been in touch to share his initial thoughts on the guidance as it is highly relevant to the current pilot restricting autism and ADHD diagnoses in York and North Yorkshire. These are my personal initial
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Keep up with developments on our updates page here Following our blog post on the 26th March (opens in new tab), many of you have communicated with the York and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnerships to raise your concerns about the decision to change the eligibility criteria for assessment of autism and ADHD. We
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North Yorkshire and York Health and Care Partnership* are removing access to autism and ADHD assessment and diagnosis for adults in North Yorkshire and York in new pilot *Apologies to TEWV NHS who were previously named as having made this decision. YDRF includes autism, ADHD and other neurodivergence in our definition of disability. The social
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We have a few events coming up locally that we wanted to let you know about. To be kept up to date, you can also sign up to our newsletter or follow us on social media. Disability and Queerness in History As part of LGBT History Month, join us to have a look at how
Do you want to make a difference to disabled people in York? Are you disabled and live or work in York? Join us! We’re an incredible group of committed disabled people who want to improve York. If you want to read a couple of personal experiences, head over to Hazel and Lydia’s blog posts. Our
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Disabled people have lots to say and we’ve just picked out a few of the incredible TED talks out there. Let us know your favourite disability TED talk in the comments!
Disabled People Delivering Awesome TED Talks! Read More »
We were recently asked how taxis in York work, or don’t work, for the disability community. This is what you told us. Primarily wheelchair users responded to us so the comments mainly reflect that experience. We are anecdotely aware that blind and visually impaired people find taxis very useful. There was one good experience reported:
Our annual survey highlighted three key areas for us to work on; health and care, physical accessibility and attitudes and awareness. Further discussion has helped us get a bit more detail about those areas. We’re holding a couple of online meetings in January where we’ll start figuring out how we take action on the things that
Helen has been looking into the rise in cashless shops and venues and how they might affected disabled people. With Covid came a reluctance to handle cash. From a risk management perspective it made sense to ask people to pay via other means such as contactless cards or using phone apps. But, is it good
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