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For many children and young people teaching adaptations and reasonable adjustments can be enough to enable them to be successful within the classroom and thrive within wider school life.

Making reasonable adjustments to the classroom environment can make a significant difference for children or young people with social communication needs.

The following teaching strategies are considered effective with pupils who have a social communication need, including autistic pupils.

Class teachers and teaching assistants should ensure that they have a good understanding of the child or young person’s developmental history and learning profile and that they have access to recent assessment information.

Children and young people with social communication needs will have many strengths, but they may have differences, or difficulties, in one or more areas