Case Study 2: Transition Support Programme

My son was lucky enough to have access to a programme specially designed to make transition easier.

The programme was run by the Psychology team and involved my son attending a school for two weeks of the Summer break before he started high school. He and some other kids with a variety of difficulties (not all spectrum ones) had workshops on the new environment they would be going into, but these workshops were run just like the High School would be, with the bell ringing and moving to a different location for the next workshop (all done in a High School building).

All the issues of moving along corridors and up and down stairs were addressed along with having different children in each class and a different subject and teacher in each session. This also allowed the Educational Psychologists who were running the course to prepare dossiers on each child to be passed to their High School setting out the areas of difficulty that they had. For example, they noted our son’s extreme literal translations and his language processing difficulties, his rigid thought processing, his need to answer questions all the time and of course his endless chatter and fidgeting. All of this info was passed to the school.

This case study was provided by a member of the Talk about Autism community.