How I provide a service for young people with Asperger syndrome (1) – Let’s get on.
Author: Caroline Baber, Ann Clemence, Karen Ford & Ruth Watson
Magazine issue: Winter 05
Page numbers: 25-26
Date: 28 November 2005
URL: http://www.speechmag.com/content/files/HowIAspergersyndrome.pdf
The authors were faced with increasing referrals of older children in mainstream school with social communication difficulties, and the resulting negative impact on community clinic assessment waiting lists. Dissatisfied with an ‘advice and closure’ approach, the authors developed a package of care that has benefited the department as well as the young people and their families. Evaluation of the project has led to outreach sessions being allocated to support and extend the work.
