Pupils' Needs

What specialist approaches will school use to meet my child’s learning needs?

All pupils: Our school has specialist skills and knowledge to meet the needs of our pupils. We use a Total Communication Environment for all pupils including the use of appropriate verbal communication, signing (BSL signed assisted English), symbols, literacy as appropriate, and objects of reference along with, music and other environmental cues and references. As classes are grouped mainly according to learning needs, teachers can closely match their delivery of the curriculum to each pupil’s level of understanding.

This section of our site will describe how we understand the needs of our pupils in the Structured Department including the need to learn to develop:

  • Intensive Interaction
  • Living in the non-autistic world- coping with change and working with other people
  • Communicating through the exchange of pictures- PECS
  • Sensory Processing- coping with over-sensitivity and under-sensitivity
  • Social Stories- explaining the "rules" of social interactions
  • Visual Timetables- understanding expectations and sequences in time