Type of service: Online services, Training providers, Training providers

Website: http://www.autus.org.uk

Autus - The Hao2 Foundation exists to facilitate personal and professional growth for people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and complex needs, increasing opportunities for exciting and sustainable work to improve lives and prospects. We are a disabled people's user led organisation set up to enable disabled people to purchase employability training and job coaching courses through a supportive route and benefit from a 20% VAT exemption, thereby making personal budgets go further. Disabilities and conditions catered for by the service are Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, autism, autism spectrum, challenging behaviour, moderate learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disability and complex needs. They accept service users from anywhere with a good internet connection. Our courses are predominantly accessed from a home connection and participants need to have access to a multimedia PC and basic IT skills including elementary knowledge of how to use email, the internet and instant messaging chat. If these are barriers to access, we can work with individuals to identify local community centres that can help them overcome these barriers to participation by creating local digital access points.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Adult , Young person

Gender: All genders

Specialisms: Generic