My Health Passport
The passport is designed to help autistic people to communicate their needs to doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. It was developed by Baroness Angela Browning – an National Autistic Society Vice President – in collaboration with The National Autistic Society.
It was independently reviewed in 2017 and updated following comments by autistic people and professionals about how they were using it or wanted to use it.
Download the autism health passport (PDF)
More information on the Health Passport can be found at the National Autism Society Website
Autism Alert Cards
For £5, Autism Anglia offers a credit card-sized Autism Alert Card as a way of boosting confidence and giving peace of mind if encountering emergency situations.
The project was developed in East Anglia in 2007 with the full support of Essex Police and the Suffolk and Norfolk Constabularies. It has since been adopted by the Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Constabularies and the Bedfordshire Police to make it available in West Anglia also.
The card is designed so that an individual’s behaviour or the nature of their condition can be quickly explained when they find themselves in a difficult or emergency situation. It also means that behind the scenes lots of work is being done to train the Emergency Services so that they understand what they can do to ease interactions they have with someone who has autism, as sometimes a little knowledge can go a long way.
DAWN Autism Passport
The Autism Passport is a useful resource when visiting Court Rooms, Police Stations, GPs, Hospital and more. It supports the autistic individual by informing what reasonable adjustments are required in order to help with communication.
Avaliable in both download and hard copy
National Autism Society
The National Autism Society has a free download Autism Alert card that you can use to tell people you are Autistic and the difficulties that you may have.
There are also cards if you have an Autistic Child or an Autistic adult that you are supporting.