Service URL: http://www.education.gg/article/2994

The Communication & Autism Support Service is another education support service working with children and young people in mainstream and special schools. The Service provides: advice and consultancy to teachers, support staff and parents for children from school age to 19 years who have significant difficulties with social communication and language, including autism; advice to schools on the adaptation of material, teaching methodologies and strategies, examination arrangements etc; school staff development and training in relation to social communication and language difficulties and autism; advice to schools in identifying and assessing pupils' social communication and language needs; assessment of pupils who may have social communication and language needs; support for pupils with social communication and language needs in mainstream schools; assistance in writing Individual Education Plans (IEPs); specific training pertinent to individual pupils eg Social Use of Language Programmes (SULP); and management and support of the Communication Bases within mainstream schools (at Amherst Primary and St. Sampson's High Schools). Entry criteria to the service includes: Significant difficulties with social interaction and communication, despite receiving differentiated learning opportunities over a period of time; and Diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child

Covers: Guernsey Health Authority, Sark Health Authority

Specialisms: Has autism-specific elements

Other specialisms: Challenging behaviour, Learning disability