Autistic Adult Quick Reference Guide: Norfolk
Our Quick Reference Guides are away to find specific signposting and support based on your area.
This information sheet is for autistic adults (with or without a diagnosis) who are worried about their needs and looking for support. The services below are here to support you on your journey. Please reach out to them for help.
General Advice and Information
- Norfolk Autism Partnership provides a range of information and resources such as autism training, involvement opportunities, what’s on and the local autism strategy and plan.
- Ambitious about Autism provides information on making sense of your autism diagnosis. This includes videos about the experience of getting a diagnosis in adulthood, along with other information such as advice on explaining your autistic needs.
- Recovery College provides a range of courses including ‘Understanding, Managing and Embracing Autism’.
- ASD Helping Hands provides an autism information and advice service.
- Citizens Advice Norfolk provides free confidential and impartial advice
Understanding Autism
- Autism Awareness e-learning is a free course designed and created by autistic people living in Norfolk to spread awareness and understanding of autism.
- Too Much Information was a campaign run by the National Autistic Society, which developed videos to help the public better understand autism and the changes they can make.
Reasonable Adjustments
- Reasonable Adjustments for people with learning disabilities and autistic people is a guide on what autistic people using health service and their supporters can reasonably expect.
- Autism Friendly Communications Top Tips is a coproduced guide to support services to work more effectively with autistic people to meet their needs. Autistic adults can use the guide to think about and share with those who support them the things that work and
don’t work for them. - Self Advocacy Booklet is a booklet produced by Autism Bedfordshire that enables you to make notes of what you may need to say or ask for in a variety of situations.
- Autism Anglia Autism Alert Card and NAS Autism Alert Card can be used in during stressful situations or to let people know you are autistic and may need some support.
- My Health Passport is a resource for autistic people to communicate their health needs. Support for autistic people to access healthcare services in hospital settings.
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals website provides contact information.
- James Paget University Hospital website provides contact information.
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn website provides contact information.
Research
- Autistica provide opportunities for autistic adult and their families to get involve in research
Diagnosis - Autism Assessment
- Be U Norfolk provide an adult autism diagnostic assessment for adults aged 18 years and over who do not have a learning disability. Contact your GP for a referral.
- Right To Choose / Patients Choice
Support Groups
- The Norfolk Autism Directory a one stop shop for autism services in Norfolk.
- What’s On a selection of events across Norfolk from regular support and social groups to one day events across for autistic people and their parents and carers.
- Asperger East Anglia provide a range of support services for adults and their family.
Family and Carers
- Autism Central provides peer education, support and resources for families and support networks of autistic people of all ages in England.
- Carers Matter Norfolk provides support and advice to carers including carers assessments. Call the carers advice line 0800 083 1148 Monday to Friday between 9am to 5pm.
- Autistic Parents UK autistic parents seeking connection and support.
Support for home educating families
- BBC Bitesize provides accessible learning resources for children and young people with SEND, including support for home education across a wide range of subject.
- Norfolk County Council Elective Home Education team
Life Skills
- Adult Learning provides a range of courses to help develop life skills and offers independent living skills programmes for people who may need additional support.
Housing
- Shelter housing provides advice on homelessness, private renting, evictions, tenancy deposits, repairs, benefits and money problems, council housing and mortgage repossessions
Money and Benefits
- Money Helper provides information about benefits and everyday money guidance.
- National Autistic Society provides information and a training module about managing your money including your rights and help available.
Employment and Training
- National Autistic Society provides employment guides and an employment module for autistic people looking for a job, as well as information for autistic people in work.
- Local Supported Employment provides support for those wanting to get back into or stay in work.
- Pro Autism provides a free online course designed for autistic university students and graduates.
Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Molehill Mountain a free downloadable app to help autistic people understand and self- manage anxiety.
- SANEline is a national helpline service that provides specialist emotional support, guidance and information to anyone affected by mental illness including family, friends and carers. Call 0300 304 7000 between 4pm to 10pm.
- Samaritans provide a confidential conversation at any time to talk about all sorts of concerns that you may have, call 116 123.
Mental Health Crisis
- NHS 111 Mental Health Option 2 24 hour urgent mental health support. Dial 111 and choose the mental health option.
- SHOUT 85258 a 24 hour crisis text service for mental health – Text “shout” to 85258 for urgent mental health support.
Keeping Safe
- Tricky Friends is a short animation to help people to understand what good friendships are and when they might be harmful and what they can do.
- Norfolk Safeguarding Adults Board provides resources to understand about keeping safe.
- Safeguarding adult concern: If someone you know is being abused or may be at risk of any form of mistreatment or neglect, then call 0344 800 8020. This checklist can help you to have the right information when raising a safeguarding adult concern.
Disclaimer: This information is correct at the time of collation (May 2026) version 14 Next review Aug 2026