Crane, L;
Davies, J;
Fritz, A;
O’Brien, S;
Worsley, A;
Ashworth, M;
Remington, A;
(2021)
The transition to adulthood for autistic young people with additional learning needs: the views and experiences of education professionals in special schools.
British Journal of Special Education
10.1111/1467-8578.12372.
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Abstract
Education professionals (n = 41) in special schools were interviewed about supporting their autistic pupils transitioning to adulthood following the introduction of the Children and Families Act 2014. Our participants explained how they lacked the time to fully implement knowledge gained from training, leading to growing reliance on experiential expertise. While our participants reported employing a variety of methods to elicit the voices of pupils, they were uncertain how effective and ethical these were. Further, a lack of available opportunities meant that participants felt they could not always support young people in achieving their goals. Based on these findings, we recommend greater investment in the implementation of staff training, more flexibility for schools to be able to meaningfully elicit and act on pupils' voices, and better vocational opportunities for autistic young people with additional learning needs. This would enable the principles of the Act, which have been widely lauded, to become a closer reality.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The transition to adulthood for autistic young people with additional learning needs: the views and experiences of education professionals in special schools |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8578.12372 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8578.12372 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 The Authors. British Journal of Special Education published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of National Association for Special Educational Needs This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cite |
| Keywords: | Autism, special education, educators, transition, outcomes, pupil voice |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10131112 |
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