This page aims to answer some of the questions we are most frequently asked about this website.
If you can't find the answer to a question you would like to ask please email info@researchautism.net and we will do our best to help you.
This website is owned and run by the Research Autism information service, which is part of the National Autistic Society.
It was previously run by Research Autism, the only UK charity exclusively dedicated to research into interventions in autism.
This site has been designed to provide you with information about autism and related issues.
It has also been designed to act as a gateway to some of the other resources on autism, both here in the UK and overseas.
This website has NOT been designed
We regret that we cannot advise you which intervention, if any, you should use. Each person with autism is different, with different needs and abilities.
The medical information published on this site is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between you and your GP or medical advisor. We hope that by providing this information, you will gain a better understanding of autism, including the range of interventions (treatments, therapies and services) which are available.
Any information published on this site about medicines and drugs, or about other forms of treatment, has been written by non-medically qualified individuals, unless we specifically state otherwise. Any such information should be therefore be treated with care.
We provide a reasonable amount of information about each of the most commonly used interventions.
If you need more information about an intervention from this list, you can usually find this in the reading section for that intervention or you can visit the websites listed in the links section for that intervention. For an example, please see the entry on Early Intensive Behavioural Interventions
We hope to provide more information about other interventions as resources allow.
There are hundreds and hundreds of different interventions which are designed to help people with autism spectrum disorders, which makes describing them all difficult, especially as new interventions are coming along all the time.
We try to list all of the interventions we have heard of, including any acronyms and synomyms, in our alphabetic listing.
If you know of an intervention we have not yet listed, please let us know by emailing info@researchautism.net. Thank you.
No. We do not accept any kind of advertising as this could compromise the integrity of the site.
We do sometimes provide information about the work of other organisations but only where we believe this is in the interests of our visitors and we do not accept payment when we do so.
You do not need to ask our permission to link to this site but, if you do make a link to this site, please let us know by emailing info@researchautism.net
We regret that we are unable to link to every website which provides information about autism spectrum disorders and related issues because we simply don't have the resources to identify, add and then maintain the links.
We have therefore adopted the following criteria for inclusion of links to external websites
Where we are unable to link to a site, we suggest you contact the other sites listed in the links section of this site.