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Developing Your Own Panel with Autistic Young People

This guide provides comprehensive advice on how you can successfully engage with autistic young people through a lived experience panel.

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Early Years Transitions Parent Guide – Part 3

This guide is part three of a three-part resource, offering parents and carers a Toolkit packed with useful resources designed to make it easier to support your child with early years Transitions.

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Early Years Transitions Parent Guide – Part 2

This guide is part two of a three-part resource and offers practical strategies and tips to parents to help their child navigate transitions across different settings and within the same setting during their early years.

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Early Years Transitions Parent Guide - Part 1

This guide is part one of a three-part resource, designed to support parents in understanding how autism may affect their child's transitions during the crucial early years of life, from birth to five years old.

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Why Autism is a Difference, not a Deficit

Watch our free video: promoting a wider understanding that autistic people have strengths and differences in three key areas of development.

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Post-16 Competency Framework

A post 16 autism competency framework for people working with young autistic people.

Post-16 Competency Framework
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School Transitions Parent Guide – Part 1

This guide is part one of a three-part resource, designed to support parents in understanding how autism may affect their child's transitions from age five to sixteen.

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School Transitions Parent Guide – Part 2

This guide is part two of a three-part resource and offers practical strategies and tips to parents to help their child navigate transitions between settings and academic phases, from ages five to sixteen.

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School Transitions Parent Guide – Part 3

This guide is the final part of a three-part resource, offering parents and carers a Toolkit packed with useful resources designed to make it easier to support your child with School Transitions.

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Exclusion: A Guide to Help Governing Boards

This resource outlines the legal requirements of the Equality Act 2010 for schools in relation to the exclusion of disabled pupils.

Exclusions: A Guide to Help Governing Boards
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Self-Advocacy Toolkit

This toolkit starts by placing the autistic young person at the centre, then systematically delves into different areas of life to help them become adept at self-advocacy.

Self Advocacy Toolkit for Autistic Young People
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Improving autism practice in college

Improving autism practice in college to support placement sustainability and to avoid escalation of need

Improving autism practice in college
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Good Autism Practice Report: Case Studies

The Good Autism Practice Case Studies support our Good Autism Practice Guidance. Offering evidence and impact, the report was first published in 2009 and a second iteration was published with updates in 2019.

Good Autism Practice Case Studies
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National Autistic Society Education Report

The education system in England is simply not working for autistic children and we are calling on the Government to intervene with its upcoming review of the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system, due in the Spring.

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Positive Relationships Between Home and School

Top tips for working with parents and ten ways schools can create better learning alignments with parents of autistic students

Positive relationships between home and school
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Early Years Standards Framework

For those who are in a leadership position, whether that be leadership groups or individuals

Early Years Standards Framework
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