Professional practice

The National Autistic Society has many pages about professional practice.       Click icon to browse their list.
More specifically see:  teachers        Also transition guides:  to primary school        leaving school        mental health

Finished at school

Ambitious About Autism published a guide at the end of their Finished at School(FaS) campaign.       The learning it captured is intended to support colleges in developing effective practice to support learners with autism to make a successful transition from school to college and into adult life.        Click icon for guide.

See also:  www.ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk         Twitter has a link to the website at the top of its display.       Once there navigate to:

Menu > Who we are > Campaigns > Finished at School 

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 resourcefor 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

Treatmentand Educationof 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

• 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
• Lincolnshire County Council website has a training resources page.         (new)
  See also their downloads:  Autism training         Training outcomes         Skills & knowledge        Autism champion         Autism champion flowchart         Early years inclusion
• Makatoncourse in Grantham.        See related calendar
• Autism Independent UKis 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 & disabilityfor 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 referralform 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 communicationand / or learningneeds.        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.

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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