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Accessing the Curriculum for Pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Using the TEACCH Programme to Help Inclusion

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Division TEACCH have never promoted themselves in the way that some other programs working with children have, and for a long while there haven't been any readily-available books describing their current methods and wealth of accumulated clinical experience.

This book begins to fill that gap.

Although it often refers to the requirements of the UK's National Curriculum, it should be equally relevant to teachers, parents and professionals in the USA and elsewhere.

It gives a detailed (but very readable) account of how the various TEACCH tools such as structure, visual schedules and worksystems can be individualized to help support children and adolescents at all levels of ability.

And hopefully along the way it should dispel a few myths - that TEACCH methods are only for "low-functioning" children, that they're incompatible with inclusion, and so on.

The book never claims to have "The Answer" for dealing with autism; it simply presents a toolbox of low-key, easy-to-implement strategies which can help support the learning of almost any student on the autistic spectrum.