Team Around the Child

As a guide, a TAC is required where two or more support services are involved.        Click icon for Lincolnshire Council guidance and assessment portal.

Here is a one stop resource for those in need of Teams Around a Child: Early Help Lincolnshire       Here is the TAC website establised by Peter Limbrick who developed TAC.        This link gives a feel for how things might work: TAC meetings

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This is a page for professionals who may be quite new to autism.        See also:  Autism awareness        SEN/EHC Information         Sensory sensitivity for Sensory Processing Disorder under SPD.

TEACCH

Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children (TEACCH) is another broad brush approach to working with children or adults with autism.        It has more to do with values and priorities than specific techniques.        Click icon for more detail.
The NAS Early bird programme draws on the TEACCH approach.        See also:  Autism UK       Wikipedia

Training courses

• Lincolnshire County Council website has training related material:  Autism training         Training outcomes         Skills & knowledge        Autism champion         Autism champion flowchart         Early years inclusion
• The National Autistic Society offers a range of training courses for autism professionals and others who need to cater for autistic people.       See:  professionals         teachers          training & consultancy         courses
• Contact, for families with disabled children,  offers a range of courses to support professionals in their work with families with disabled children.       See:  professionals           training courses
• Makaton course in Grantham.        See related calendar
• Autism Independent UK is a small charity based in Kettering, Nothamptonshire.        See  dates      contact

Supporting inclusion

Click icon for Lincolnshire Council pages about supporting inclusion.       It covers aspects of special educational needs & disability for professionals.        They also has a specialist school support services page in  EduLincs            (new)

Lincolnshire has four integrated locality teams.       SENCOs from all early years providers, registered childminders and out of school club managers can request Early Years inclusion support.        See Early years support         It has an inclusion support referral form at the bottom of the page and email addresses.

Working together team

The Working Together Team offers support to schools and academies for students with a wide range of social communication and / or learning needs.        See also:  detail          SEN Support – Scroll down to Social communication outreach.

Flash Cards

Sparklebox offer free teaching aids for children with special educational needs.          Here is the Speech page.        Their terms of use are brief.

SENCo resources

The Council offers support for Early Years SENDCo in implementing the graduated approach within the SEND Code of Practice and meeting the needs of children.        Click icon to browse.

Co-ordination

Early years can extend as far as the age of 18 with ESCO.       This is short for Early years Support Care & Co-ordination,

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