A Brief History of B-Autistic

Jacqueline Grant founded B-Autistic in 2005, following a number of challenging issues that she faced with strategic agencies that were supposedly put in place to support people like her son who often find themselves in difficult situations. Her son James, who is Autistic with learning difficulties, has no spoken language and finds it difficult to communicate his needs. Although he tries very hard to make his needs known through various aspects of body language and facial expression.

She felt let down by these agencies and organisation included schools, colleges, including social care and Health and other agencies that are in place to support vulnerable people in the community. Jacqueline had been involved in the community as a school governor to four schools, over a period of over twenty years as well as various community groups, where she became aware of the lack of support for parents and carers from the very organisations that should have been able to help.

She later gave up her job as a college tutor to support her son in the community in order to help his inclusion and empowerment within the wider community. James attended meetings conferences markets, museums and in 2004 he attended the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton and was a credit to himself and others around him.

This development came out of introducing him to many activities and she felt that if it worked for her son it would also work for other young people similar to her son. By now, she was taking calls at all hours from distraught parents, who had had their children diagnosed with autism, with very little support.

B-Autistic as an organisation will wholeheartedly focus on the issues and challenges that young people with autism face. Consequently she now backs Parents/Carers rights, to objective support in their often difficult caring and supporting role, whether it’s in schools/colleges, or any strategic agencies that they may have to work with. And to support and encourage the empowerment of these very talented young people who happen to have the condition of Autism. Activities would create integration within the wider community through social integration.

Their are three main objectives:

1-After/Schools Clubs

2-Continuous Learning Resource Centre /Autism Awareness

3-To create independent living for the young people as its needed.