Description
Chapter 1 - The Current Situation; 1 Why Are Autistic Girls Vulnerable?; 2 Team Diagnosed Vs Team Undiagnosed; 3The Autistic lens Vs the Mental Health lens; 4 The Problem with the Educational System; 5 We Can't Carry On this way; Chapter 2 The Risk To Autistic Girls' Safety; 1 Sexual Abuse; 2 Bullying and Mate Crime; 3 Teen Pregnancy; 4 Radicalisation and Gangs; 5 Childhood Marriage and Domestic Violence; Chapter 3 How to Identify a Girl at Risk; 1 Masking; 2 Drink and Drug Use; 3 Eating Disorders; 4 The Common Scapegoat; 5 Burnout; Chapter 4 Tried and Tested Strategies for Support; 1 Working With Individuals; 2 Working with other Professionals; 3 Keeping an Intersectional Mindset; 4 Working with the Family; 5 The Lifesaving Gift of a Peer Group; Chapter 5 Designing and Sustaining a New Blueprint ; 1 The Untapped Oil; 2 Ideas for the Educational System; 3 Employment and Media 4 Equal Access to Safeguarding in Healthcare; 5 Access to Justice and Legislation Loopholes
Carly Jones is a British Autism Advocate who has worked for the inclusion of Autistic women and girls since 2008. She regularly speaks on news channels, at universities and in government departments and she was the first British Autistic woman to address the United Nations on Autistic females' rights. Carly also holds a public appointment as a member of the U.K. community and volunteer services Honours committee, an independent panel member for the Ministry of Justice and acts as an advisor for national media outlets, health departments and Autism charities.