Including Autistic Children in Mainstream School

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About this course...

In these practical workshop sessions we will explore ways of including pupils who have been labelled as being on the autism spectrum. The sessions will be values based and will aim to allow the sharing of experiences and good practice as well as promoting innovative approaches to inclusion through the design of best practice. Parental perspectives and experiences will also be explored. This is not a 'medical model' training on autism. Our motto for the training is 'People do things for a Reason (and the reason isn't autism).' We make full use of first hand accounts of the experience of autism - the autobiographies - to deepen participants' understanding of what it means to be labelled 'autistic'.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and disordered, or whatever.

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN