Type of service: Family support and information services, Social skills

This team is made up of a specialist qualified teacher and two specialist LSAs. The team aims to make the home and school environment more ASC-friendly. The ASC team: .

• Delivers the EarlyBird Plus Programme to parents of children aged between 5 and 10 years, and to practitioners who work with children;
• Gives individual support to children in schools from Nursery to Year 11;
• Delivers training to school practitioners giving ASC awareness and strategies;
• Delivers social skills programmes to groups of children in schools;
• Gives advice and ideas to individual practitioners in schools, early years settings and social care respite settings, teachers, LSAs, lunch-time supervisors and settings;
• Provides resources, e.g. information packs, visual material, including timetables, to schools;
• Contributes to childrens Annual Statement reviews;
• Liaises with other agencies, e.g. School Age Social Communication Assessment Team (SASCAT), Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), 14 to 19 years Education & Skills Team, etc;
• Gives support to children during transitions, especially KS2 to KS3.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child

Specialisms: Exclusively autism specific