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The Autism Capacity Toolkit - Peer Reviewed and Accepted for Publication with Routledge

A practical field guide for SENDCos and school leaders who want to build clearer, more consistent autism-informed systems across primary schools.

The toolkit focuses on four areas of school practice:

• Sensory & Environment
• Regulation & Adult Practice
• Visual Structure & Communication
• Executive Function & Supported Autonomy

The aim is to help schools move from individual problem-solving towards shared, carryable systems that can hold across classrooms, transitions and unstructured parts of the day.

Assess one system. Install it. Review consistency. Move on when it is embedded.

Autism facing Inclusion_strategy_template Vicky Carpenter.docx

Worked example: Autism Inclusion Strategy - NoSuch School

This fictional worked example shows how a school might complete an inclusion strategy using an autism-informed, capacity-building approach.

It links commonly occurring barriers to practical activity across the universal offer and targeted provision. It also shows how protected SENDCo time, classroom system reviews, family partnership and provision blocks can be written into a school strategy.

This is not a real school strategy or statutory advice. It is an example resource for SENDCos and leaders who want to think through how inclusion can be planned, delivered and reviewed in practice.

Download the NoSuch School Autism Inclusion Strategy Example

Provision RAG Starter Tool Vicky Carpenter.docx

Provision RAG Tool

The Provision RAG Tool is available to download below.

It is a simple working tool to help SENDCos and leaders identify what provision is reliable, inconsistent, missing or not relevant, so patterns can be acted on across the school.

More information about The Autism Capacity Toolkit will be added soon.

It sits within the same wider work as The Autism Toolkit: building shared language between schools, families and systems.

Download Free Provision RAG Tool

Family-facing companion

For parent-facing support, see The Autism Toolkit - a practical companion for parents, carers and professionals supporting understanding, sensory needs, regulation, communication and everyday home-school support.

The Autism Toolkit

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