Gold Coast Airport launches extensive hidden disabilities program

Gold Coast Airport is launching a comprehensive and best practice program to assist passengers with a hidden disability following close consultation with key stakeholders, including Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect).

In an Australian first, Aspect launches distance education for students on the autism spectrum

An innovative program allowing students on the autism spectrum to learn from home by connecting them to teachers via digital learning tools, will start next year in what is set to be an Australian first.

Aspect partners with Microsoft Store Sydney to launch free autism-friendly Minecraft workshops

Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) have partnered with flagship Microsoft Store Sydney to present a series of free autism-friendly Minecraft workshops for children aged 8 – 14 years.

The autistic and autism community is encouraged to participate in the Disability Royal Commission

Autism Spectrum Australia’s (Aspect) former CEO, Adrian Ford, has voiced his support for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with a Disability (Disability Royal Commission), and has encouraged people in the autistic and autism communities to participate to ensure that the rights of people on the spectrum were fully represented and considered.

Aspect announces appointment of new CEO

Following a six-month recruitment process, Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) announced the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jacqui Borland.

Autism CRC and Aspect collaborate to deliver future leaders program

With great pleasure we announce the new collaboration between out two organisations, the Cooperative Research Centre for Living with Autism (Autism CRC) and Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) To deliver the Future Leaders Program in 2019 and 2020

Research shows children miss out on vital early support therapies due to delays in diagnosis

New research by Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) shows that many children diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum may have missed out on important early intervention therapies due to delays in receiving a diagnosis.

Statement from the Australian autism Alliance on the Release of the National Guidelines for autism Diagnosis

The Autism Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) has published Australia's National Guideline for the assessment and diagnosis of autism.

New study to look at police interactions with people on the autism spectrum

This study aims to gather information from both adults on the autism spectrum and the families of individuals on the autism spectrum of any age about the nature of their interactions with the police in Australia, and to investigate the ways in which the traits of autism may impact on these interactions.