The website recommends a lot of helpful resources including:

 

1. Parent to Parent Service Helpline

"If you would like to speak to a Parent to Parent Service volunteer please call 0808 800 4106 to leave a message or fill in the form below. A trained volunteer will phone you back as soon as possible to offer confidential telephone support. We will aim to call you back within a week of your initial call, but this might not always be possible. We will return your call as soon as we possibly can. When you talk to one of our volunteers, everything you say will remain confidential unless there is good reason for us to divulge information. For example, child protection."

2. Podcasts 

3. Telephone interpretation service 

4. Education Rights Service

5. School exclusions service 

6. Autism services directory 

7. Help outside the UK

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The NHS website is a great place to visit for advice on where you can get support. Here are some of their suggestions:

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Facebook

• National Autistic Society Facebook group

• Ambitious about Autism Facebook group

• Actually Autistic for autistic adults

• Autism Research Trust

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Twitter

• National Autistic Society Twitter group

• Ambitious about Autism Twitter group

• Autistica

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Forums and communities

• National Autistic Society Community

• Autism Support (HealthUnlocked)

Autism Helpline 

The Child Autism UK helpline is a vital resource for parents when they first get a diagnosis of autism for their child.

Calls to the Helpline vary considerably from day to day.  Categories of calls include:

• How does autism manifest itself

• How to get a diagnosis

• What help is available

• Setting up an ABA programme

• Special educational needs funding

• Employing tutors

To call the autism helpline
phone: 01344 882248.

One of the most valuable aspects of the Helpline is that parents can be put in contact with other parents in their area who have faced the same issues.

Child Autism UK also runs a confidential helpline for tutors which gives advice on contractual matters and ethics.

To call the tutor helpline phone 01344 882248
(2 pm – 4 pm weekdays)