Resources for autistic adults
Autism and Health Resources
For our Health Access Project, we have made a number of free tools that can help you communicate your healthcare needs, including pain and mental fatigue.
Leeds Autism Alert Card
Leeds Autism AIM, West Yorkshire Police and other local organisations have coproduced a free autism alert card. The card can be used to help communicate your needs and how being autistic affects you in stressful situations.
Strategy Guides
We have made a series of guides on topics such as employment, communication and health with tips and links to useful resources, all made by our staff team.
Leeds Autism Strategy
Here you can find out more about the autism strategies, what their goals are and how you can get involved.
Autism Health Passport
There is a free Autism Health Passport for Leeds that can help you communicate your needs when accessing local NHS services.
Self-Advocacy and Planning Tools
Our self-advocacy and planning tools can help you speak up about your rights and needs, as well as plan parts of your life.
Autism and Mental Health resources
The Mental Health Equity Project and Leeds Mind have a range of free guides and tools on autism and mental health.
Mental Health Access Project resources
Our Mental Health Access Project team have made a few resources to help with accessing community mental health services in Leeds.
Mental health guide for autistic adults
This guide has information on mental health services in Leeds and on how to apply for GP funding for autism-specific counselling.
PIP Guides
There are a series of guides to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for autistic adults, covering areas like applications, appeals and evidence.
Support in Leeds
We have information on a range of services in Leeds that can help you. Find out what they are by clicking below.
Webinars
We are running free regular webinars for autistic adults, covering a range of topics such as identity and relationships.
Other Resources
We can also produce other personalised resources to help you communicate your needs, including employment profiles.
Resources and guides for professionals
We have a series of resources that professionals working with autistic adults can find useful too. They include guides covering areas like health, mental health and communication. Please click the button below to find them.
Newsletters, posters, flyers and publicity material
Mailing Lists
Sign up to our mailing lists and receive our quarterly newsletter, as well as news of any upcoming events or developments within our service.
Newsletter
Our newsletter is called Leeds Autism AIM News and they will tell you about what’s going on with us and in the wider autism community.