ABSTRACT
The 2014 Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice says that the following should being taken into consideration: The reasonable steps taken to ensure that the inclusion of a child with autistic spectrum disorder who is noisy and constantly moves around in a mainstream secondary school is not incompatible with the efficient education of others may include: Ensuring all possible steps are taken to provide structure and predictability to the childs day for example, by the use of visual timetables, careful prior explanation of changes to routines and clear instructions for tasks, ensuring that the child is taught a means of communicating wants and needs using sign, symbol or spoken language, having an individual workstation within a teaching space where distractions can be kept to a minimum and everything needed for the work to be done can be organised in sequence.
