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King's College dean apologises after autistic boy ejected from chapel
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Ireland: Autism rate hits a high as diagnosis of girls improves
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Autistic children in NI schools trebles in a decade
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No CAMHS help for 200 miles for pupil in 'massive decline'
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Number of Scottish children identified with autism doubles
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Autistic girl who can't speak in full sentences denied place at special school
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Mother sues over daughter's suicide attempt in school isolation booth
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3:15 p.m. - Oral evidence session re detention of young people with learning disabilities and autism
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Boy with autism left with no school to go to for 12 months
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Suffolk girl with autism misses school after transfer blunder
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Scotland: Autistic pupil’s support ‘slashed’, Nicola Sturgeon told
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FMQs: Severely autistic Scottish child’s help slashed under cuts
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Scotland: Autistic pupil's school support slashed due to budget cuts, Nicola Sturgeon told
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Restraint isn't happening to burly teens, but to little children in primary schools
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Autistic pupils ‘suicidal’, as schools struggle to offer support
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Autism research undertaken by University of Cumbria could end confusion in criminal justice system
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Autistic teenagers ‘locked in padded cells and abused’
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Parents of excluded autistic pupils forced to quit jobs
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Pupils with autism 'being unlawfully excluded'
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Unlawful exclusion of autistic pupils 'widespread'
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Scientists reveal drumming helps schoolchildren diagnosed with autism
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New research to boost job prospects for autistic graduates
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School discriminated against expelled autistic boy, judge rules
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School exclusion of autistic boy unlawful, judge rules
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DfE court loss gives SEND pupils exclusion protection
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DfE loses landmark legal challenge on exclusions of pupils with autism
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Classroom-based intervention for pupils with autism
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Autism programme secures continued DfE funding
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School staff inadvertently record foul-mouthed chat about autistic pupil on his mother's voicemail... after believing they had hung up
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School staff leave mum foul mouthed voicemail about autistic son after thinking they hung up
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Mum of autistic boy slams school for 'abusive' voicemail
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Legal challenge over exclusion of 13-year-old autistic pupil
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Autism: ‘Better support will mean fewer exclusions’
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Northants calls for more support for 7.5M on autistic spectrum
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Exclusions of autistic pupils up 60 per cent
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Schools found to be excluding increasing number of autistic children
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Children with autism are slipping through the cracks of our education system
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Written response re steps being taken to improve the educational experience for children with autism
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Devastated mum secretly records teachers bullying her severely autistic boy, 12
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Paddy McGuinness tells parents of autistic children: 'Don't give up hope on holidays'
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Scouts pay out £42,000 over 11-year-old's autism claim
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New online resource for girls with autism
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Specialist teacher numbers fall despite rise in dyslexia and autism
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Scotland: Autistic girl bruised by teachers’ restraints, says mother
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Mum slams school after son, 6, is made to wear fluorescent bib so teachers 'know he's autistic'
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Daily roundup 19 February: Social mobility, Prince Harry, and cannabis
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Daily roundup 12 February: Care applications, parental leave and Peter Rabbit
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  • Feb 12, 2018
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Desperate parents trying to ‘cure’ autism by giving children bleach
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'My son waited five years for autism diagnosis'
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MBE for author of 'instruction manual' for autism
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  • Dec 22, 2017
Autistic student in new college after 'enrolment error'
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As BBC drama The A word shows, mainstream schools can make special needs pupils feel isolated
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Rona Tutt's SEND summary (November 2017)
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SEND Special needs NCTL TRA Teaching Regulation Agency Trainee teachers Free school meals Leaders EYPP Funding Universal credit Literacy Numeracy Lenehan review EHCP Student support Inspections Mental health Wellbeing Autism
  • Nov 27, 2017
Schools make autistic pupils feel isolated, report warns
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Special needs Autism Primary schools Secondary schools SEND Mental health
  • Nov 17, 2017
Parents accuse social services of 'failing' autistic daughter with learning difficulties kicked out of school at 11
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Autism
  • Nov 12, 2017
Six ways to support learners with autism
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SEND Autism
  • Nov 7, 2017
65% of special free schools are for autism
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Autism Special schools Special needs SEND
  • Nov 3, 2017
Mum pulls four kids out of school after ‘teacher called her brain damaged son spazzy’
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Autism Disabled Scope
  • Oct 31, 2017
Mother-of-four pulls her children out of school after 'teacher called her autistic and brain-damaged 10-year-old son 'spazzy''
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Schools Disabled Autism Scope
  • Oct 31, 2017
National Autistic Society says parents are not being properly supported
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Autism NAS
  • Oct 30, 2017
New book challenges assumptions about autism
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Autism
  • Oct 27, 2017
Pupil: 'Yoga tells the worries to go away'
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BBC Special needs Teacher training Autism
  • Oct 26, 2017
'Worrying rise' in number of children with autism being expelled or suspended from school
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Independent Special needs Autism Expulsion Suspensions Pupil exclusions Behaviour ASD
  • Sep 14, 2017
Autistic student kicked off college course one week after starting
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Independent Colleges Special needs Autism Enrolments
  • Sep 12, 2017
Review prompted by autistic teen’s college enrolment heartbreak
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FE Week Colleges Special needs Autism Enrolments
  • Sep 12, 2017
City College Norwich autistic student 'binned' from course
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BBC Special needs Colleges Autism Enrolments
  • Sep 12, 2017
Autistic boy turned away from Norwich college days after starting course
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Guardian Colleges Special needs Autism Post-16
  • Sep 11, 2017
Before Aydin Önaç reached St Olave’s, we fought him over our autistic daughter’s care | Diane Taylor and Simon Hattenstone
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Guardian Academies Pupil performance Sixth forms Secondary schools Special needs Autism Grammar schools
  • Sep 5, 2017
At university with autism: ‘My tutors saw potential’
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Guardian Universities Autism Special needs Student support
  • Aug 16, 2017
Australia: Autistic girl's heartfelt letter to Pauline Hanson after she called for children with disabilities to be taken out of 'mainstream' schools
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Mail International Australia Special needs SEN Autism Mainstream schools
  • Jul 28, 2017
£200m deal for autism schools
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Autism Funding Special schools
  • Jul 23, 2017
Ireland: dramatic rise in autism diagnoses hits taxpayers via summer tutors
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Autism Special needs Tutoring Ireland ASD
  • Jul 23, 2017
Autistic children self-harm warning over slow diagnosis
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BBC Special needs SEN Mental health Autism CAMHS Behaviour Discipline
  • Jul 10, 2017
Toolkit released to bust stigmas about autism
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IoE Autism Special needs Mental health
  • Jun 26, 2017
Autistic young people struggle to access mental health support
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CYPN Autism Mental health Special needs
  • Jun 26, 2017
Why making ‘brain hats’ can teach us about autism
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IoE UCL Autism Special needs Disability
  • Jun 8, 2017
NHS groups backtrack on proposals to restrict autism diagnoses
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Schools Week Autism Mental health Special needs SEND
  • Jun 7, 2017
SEN: EHCP waiting times are ‘still too long’
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SecEd SEN EHCP Student support Autism Special needs
  • Jun 7, 2017
Plans to restrict autism diagnoses will increase pressure on schools, headteachers say
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TES Autism Mental health
  • May 28, 2017
Fidget spinners banned from schools for making too much noise
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Independent Primary schools Secondary schools Special needs ADHD Autism
  • May 4, 2017
Oxford University apologises for 'everyday racism' advice which offended autistic people 
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Telegraph Autism Racism Oxford University
  • Apr 29, 2017
'I don't feel blessed'
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BBC Autism Parents
  • Apr 29, 2017
Oxford University apologises after being accused of calling people with autism ‘racist’
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Huffington Post Universities Oxford University Autism Racism
  • Apr 28, 2017
Oxford University sorry for eye contact racism claim
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BBC Oxford University Universities Racism Autism Disability
  • Apr 28, 2017
Oxford University accused of targeting autistic students after claiming lack of eye contact is ‘racist’
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Huffington Post Universities Oxford Racism Autism Equality Diversity
  • Apr 24, 2017
National charity opens London's first-ever autism college
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FE Week Autism Colleges
  • Apr 22, 2017
10 things every child with autism wishes you knew
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The Conversation SEN Autism Special needs
  • Mar 31, 2017
Testing times – what it’s like to sit an exam as an autistic child
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The Conversation Tests Assessment SEN Autism Special needs Learning disabilities
  • Mar 30, 2017
How animals can help autistic children
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The Conversation SEN Special needs Autism
  • Mar 29, 2017
Analysing the way children sleep could help us to understand autism
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The Conversation SEN Special needs Autism ASD ADHD Dyslexia Language Research
  • Mar 28, 2017
Mum of two slams 'shameful' planned special education budget cut
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Wales Online Wales SEN Funding Budget Autism Special needs
  • Mar 14, 2017
Call for Action following The Big Shout – Girls on the Autism Spectrum Conference
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NAHT Autism Girls SEND Training Research Mental health Parents Employers
  • Mar 8, 2017
Autistic pupils ‘need specialist schools’
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Times Autism Special schools Scotland
  • Mar 8, 2017
Autistic academics give their thoughts on university life
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The Conversation HE Universities Autism Academics
  • Feb 10, 2017
SEND: Highlights of January and upcoming events and consultations
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NAHT SEND Mental health Behaviour Discipline Ofsted Assessment Funding Autism Girls
  • Feb 3, 2017
Review of The Big Shout Conference: A clarion call to action
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NAHT Girls Autism SEND Leaders Research Academic performance
  • Jan 31, 2017
Making a difference for autistic girls and women
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NAHT SEND Autism Girls
  • Jan 30, 2017
Heads campaigning to raise awareness of hidden autism in girls
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TES Autism Girls SEND NAHT
  • Jan 27, 2017
Autism diagnosis can cause other special needs to be ‘neglected’
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Schools Week Autism DfE SEND
  • Jan 7, 2017
The questions parents of children with special needs should be asking 
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Telegraph SEN Dyslexia Autism
  • Jan 4, 2017
Schools struggle as autism diagnoses rise 25 per cent
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Schools Week Autism SEND CQC EHCP
  • Dec 16, 2016
Half of new special free schools specialise in autism
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Schools Week Free schools Autism Special needs
  • Dec 16, 2016
New research highlights damaging impact of exclusions on young autistic people
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IoE Research Autism Exclusion Mental health Wellbeing Work experience
  • Dec 13, 2016