Run By Autistic People For Autistic People

The Autistic Rights Movement UK (ARM UK) is the first national campaigning autism organisation in the UK which is user-led.

It is an Autistic People’s Organisation, run by autistic people for autistic people

ARM UK campaigns throughout the UK and elsewhere to advance the interests of all autistic people and those with “related conditions”.

ARM UK offers information, support and informal advice to those with a neurological difference.

ARM UK does not seek to represent autistic people.

It aims to ensure that autistic people have the opportunity to represent themselves.

We need the mechanisms and processes which will empower autistic people to be able to represent themselves.

As part of this ARM UK envisions autistic-led organisations in every locality in the UK, independent autonomous groups able to use the umbrella of ARM UK to come together into a national network.

ARM UK recognises that many autistic people are unable to or experience great difficulty in representing themselves.

Consequently we recognise the importance of carers, family members, friends and supporters of autistic people and welcome these non-autistic people as associate members.

ARM UK believes in strength through unity and that there is much common ground to be agreed upon in the factionalised world of autism.

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ARM UK aims to;

  • Promote the civil and human rights of autistic people
  • raise awareness of autism and “related conditions”
  • Improve services, facilities and conditions for autistic people
  • Encourage the involvement of autistic people in the commissioning, design, delivery and evaluation of the services used by autistic people.
  • Campaign for the enforcement of the legislation and guidance which guarantees us involvement
  • Develop mechanisms, structures, procedures and processes by which statutory agencies may involve and engage with autistic people.
  • Establish and support local, regional and sub-regional user-led organisations with aims similar to ARM UK.


ARM UK works to promote;

  • The involvement of autistic people in statutory sector strategic planning at all levels and in all areas
  • The involvement of autistic people in the development and delivery of third sector services (e.g. autism “awareness training”)
  • The establishment and recognition of the “fifth sector” which includes genuinely independent disabled people’s organisations
  • Opposition to the stereotyping of autistic people
  • The social model of disability as well as cultural and affirmative models of difference and ability which includes the cultural model of autism
  • The recognition that there is a “hierarchy of disabilities” and a “hierarchy of impairments” within “disability” and works to challenge that inequity
  • The recognition that there is an inequality of status between the seven “equality strands”
  • Social inclusion and independent and inclusive living
  • The concept of “Neurodiversity”

News

Something About Us

This was made out of short videos and texts from many autistic contributors. It was made to counteract the negative anti-autism message from Autism Speaks, and was commissioned from Autreach by TreeHouse, the autism-education charity. The diverse contributions were professionally edited by Jes Benstock. To find out more, visit http://www.autreach.org.uk

It is fine to show it whole, use it whole, copy it and distribute it whole. But if anyone wants to just use a part of it they should ask the original creator of that part for permission (each contributor can be contacted via a URL, in the credits at the end). Hopefully, the complete short movies submitted will also be uploaded in their own right - they are all on the DVD of this, under the heading About Us.
 

Autism strategy has ‘serious flaws’

The new national strategy for adults with autism is proving to be “seriously flawed” and “dreadfully disappointing”, according to autistic rights campaigners. read more
 

Department of Health Strategy for Adults with Autism - ARM UK response

With the publication of “Fulfilling and rewarding lives: the strategy for adults with autism in England” the government has condemned autistic people to three more years in the wilderness of
un-met needs - read more

 

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