Residential Sevices
Autisitic Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
The vast majority of adults with autism require some level of support with their everyday lives, even if they do not have a learning disability. They have difficulties with planning and organizing their time and some people struggle to understand what will happen to and around them even in the next few minutes. This is due to an "impairment of imagination" and can cause extreme anxiety. Also because of this impairment, adults with autism may develop obsessional or ritualistic behaviours to try to control their environment.
People with ASD also have difficulties in communicating their needs, which can lead to frustration and for those most severely disabled in this area, behaviours which can be challenging to services.
Communication difficulties also mean that they struggle to understand the world and the people around them and often do not know what is expected of them, which again causes anxiety.
National Autistic Society
PARIS - Public Autism Resource & Information Service
Bromley Autistic Trust strives to provide services for adults with autism across the spectrum that will enable people to achieve quality of life and to compensate for their disabilities as far as is possible.
Bromley Autistic Trust now runs three homes in Bromley opened in partnership with Hyde Housing Association and Kelsey Housing Association. Each house has its own vehicle, enabling those who cannot use public transport to have access to a wide range of community facilities.
The homes aim to provide a calm, autism-friendly environment for our Service Users, by providing:
- Staff trained in autism
- Meaningful activities
- An enhanced communication environment (using TEACCH, etc)
- Autism specific behaviour strategies
Residential homes
Hamilton House
Hamilton House has been home for five Bromley people since it opened in April 1985 and was the first "special needs" community home in the country for people with autism serving a local need.
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Northernhay
Building on the success of Hamilton House and again in partnership with Hyde Housing Association, the Trust opened Northernhay in 1994, a large detatched house for six people with autism, with a self-contained flat for a tenant who requires less support.
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Burgess House
A third home, Burgess House, opened in November 1998 in partnership with Kelsey Housing Association. The ground floor comprises a registered home for four people with high dependency needs, while, on the first and second floor, there are three self-contained one bedroomed flats for people who are more able.
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