Danielle Rudd is an autistic PhD student (Social Work) at Northumbria University, researching the experiences of autistic parents following a period of social care cuts. The project uses a participatory approach.
There is little research about services and support for autistic parents.
This paper introduces some of the experiences of autistic parents living in a society where the government recognised that support for disabled parents is a human rights issue, but also implemented a decade of austerity and social care cuts. This paper has emerged from a participatory research project that is being led by an autistic PhD student, with the support of autistic parents. The project takes a ‘social model’ approach and focuses on the shared experience of oppression faced by autistic parents.