Offers a wealth of strategies enabling you to support children with autism in the mainstream classroom. Cutting through the jargon and recognising the huge variety of ways in which children’s perceptions, feelings and behaviours may be affected by autism, the text is packed with practical advice to help you create a classroom environment which will meet the needs of the individual child.

The author looks at the most common social, practical and behavioural difficulties that a child with autism may face at school, then sets out tried and tested approaches for improving their experiences and outcomes in your classroom.

Topics discussed include:

• classroom layout, timetables and rules
• effective communication
• supporting learning and setting targets
• breaks, unstructured times and school trips
• challenging behaviours