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.
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This is a page for professionals who may be quite new to autism. See also Autism awareness
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,
Team Around the Child
When a professional from any agency identifies a child with an additional need and where the care needs require co-ordination due to complexity or due to the number of agencies involved, then a Team around the Child meeting should be initiated. Click icon for Lincolnshire Council guidance.
This link gives a feel for how things work: TAC meetings Here is a one stop resource for those in need of Teams Around a Child: TAC resource
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