EXTRA LINKS AND POLICY PAPERS

A little piece of black propaganda:-

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-2177218,00.html

The Sunday Times – Scotland May 14, 2006

Katie Grant: Some 'autistic' children aren't ill, they're just badly behaved

** UN adopts disability convention **

The UN General Assembly adopts a treaty giving greater rights to the

world's 650m disabled people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/world/6173073.stm

The European Charter of Rights for Persons with Autism can be found at this

link:-  

http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/aeright2.htm

OR

http://www.autismeurope.org/portal/Default.aspx?tabid=30

-  links to each section of the Charter.

This charter was adopted by the European Parliament in 1996 and it provides

the best framework there is for the human rights of people with autism. To

give just a few examples, it states that it is unacceptable to control people

with autism by pharmacological means, that they should have equality of

access to healthcare, that they should have the means (through legal aid) to  

litigate to protect their rights, that assessments of educational need should

at least in part be undertaken by someone independent of the service

provider, etc. etc..

http://epetitions.scottish.parliament.uk/view_petition.asp?PetitionID=88

 -  Petition by Christine MacVicar calling for the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to recognise and adopt the European Charter of Rights for People with Autism.

© Fiona Sinclair, Wednesday 4^th April 2007