APPGA inquiry into transition (14-25 yr olds with autism)

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Forwarding message from Sasha Daly of TreeHouse re APPGA inquiry

into transition - TreeHouse will be submitting evidence and here is

how your family's experience can be part of that evidence:

Dear Parents

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism (APPGA) is currently

holding its first ever inquiry. The inquiry is looking at the

transition stage of young people with autism from the age of 14 to

25. Transition can be a difficult time for young people with autism

so effective support and early planning is essential. The inquiry

was launched on 9 December 2008 and will take both written and oral

evidence. Written evidence will be taken up to 6 February 2009, and

the officers of the group will call on a few people to give oral

evidence later in February and in March.

TreeHouse will be submitting written evidence to the inquiry. It

would be extremely helpful to get your feedback from you to inform

our submission. We have therefore put together the following survey

to collect your views. This survey is completely anonymous.

The first page of the survey asks for some background information.

The second page gives you a chance to answer the specific inquiry

questions. As these questions are quite long and detailed we also

have a third and final page which provides a chance for you to write

down any thoughts you have on the topic. The survey is constructed

so that you don't have to answer any of the questions specifically

(except for the initial background questions), so please feel free

to only answer questions that you want to.

Please complete the survey here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nbohYwOZ6l_2bW6EsjhcL6Og_3d_3d

Thank you for your time in looking at this and sending me your

thoughts to inform our response, it really makes a difference to

hear your views and experiences. Please do forward this on to other

parents in your networks.

The deadline for this survey is Friday 30 January.

If you would like to submit evidence directly to the inquiry you can

do that aswell/instead by going to the National Autistic Society

website: http://www.autism.org.uk/nas/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2029

Zoe