including autism, ADHD, Asperger’s syndrome
What’s in this section:
Understanding autism
Autism is a spectrum condition and affects people in different ways. The National Autistic Society website provides more information of the difficulties autistic people may share and strengths and weaknesses.
A collection of tools and resources
The social workers toolbox website below has a wide range of free social work tools and resources that practitioners can use with children and young people diagnosed with Autism & ADHD along with guidance that can be shared with parents/carers.
The Autism Toolbox
The Autism Toolbox website is an online resource to support the inclusion of children and young people with autism spectrum disorder in mainstream education services. As well as introducing and describing some of the more common challenges a pupil with autism might face, it provides real life case studies from Scottish schools and practical examples of supports that practitioners can translate and use in their own school setting. It also signposts to other useful websites.
Talking Mats
Talking Mats is an established visual communication framework that uses a mat and picture symbols as the basis for communication to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties, and those close to them, by increasing their capacity to communicate effectively about things that matter to them. It is designed to help people with communication difficulties think about issues or topics in a different way and it provides people with a way to effectively express their views visually.
Children’s Social Care Direct Work Resource Toolkit 