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Provision and Developments
•Early Bird
•Provision at early years
•Mainstream
•Special schools
•Specific projects
The NAS EarlyBird Scheme aims to:
•support parents in the period between diagnosis and transition to nursery or school.
•empower parents and help them facilitate their child's social communication and appropriate behaviour within the child's natural environment.
•help parents establish good practice in handling their child at an early age so as to pre-empt the development of inappropriate behaviours.
Managed by Portage Team – Sue Weston
Rainbow at Manor Mead, following on success of Springboard at Pondmeadow
Mainstream – pupils supported, some without statements.  Unit provision enables higher level of support particularly around language and communication (increasing use of SNSUs, Lang. units)
Outreach from Linden Bridge, Freemantles
Linden Bridge expansion, Freemantles – Beacon schools.  Freemantles relocation and re-build
SLD + LD support pupils with ASD – development of West Hill and The Abbey
NAS partnership project supporting Aspergers in transition Year 6 to 7
A Framework for Understand Autism