Engaging with autistic people with an intellectual disability
The Department of Social Services (DSS) asked Inclusion Australia to provide advice on key issues facing autistic people with an intellectual disability, to feed into a consultation process to develop the National Autism Strategy.
In particular, DSS was interested in who has been left out of consultations in the past, how best to engage with those who have been left out, and what are the most important things this group should be asked about in consultations.
In this paper, we talk about the intersection of autism and intellectual disability and how the National Autism Strategy can find and highlight the voices of autistic people with an intellectual disability. We spoke to several different advisory groups, sector leaders, and families of autistic people with an intellectual disability about what they most needed to give their input into the National Autism Strategy.