Ms Rosalind No?l:

There are grants and systems in place that do come through. Regarding the initial assessments, councils have employed occupational therapists to do some of them. Again, not all councils now have an occupational therapist to do this work. It can be put back onto the CDNT occupational therapist, who will know the child and the family, to do that piece of work. It could also be a lack of resources regarding why this process may be slow-moving.

Turning to making other towns autism friendly, this is some of the societal change needed that we have been talking about. It is about accepting and understanding a divergent population and how to make this more mainstream. I hope this has answered the Senator's questions.