1. Reflection Tool: working with children with ASD
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Lorna Johnston
30th September 2015

2. Plan Context GIRFEC Principles Development process The Reflection Tool
Next steps
Lorna

3. Project: Culture Change
Factors supporting systemic change:
Professional development
Culture change
Consultations and conversations
Autism aware planning
Improving practice at pathway 1 and 2
Training
Perspectives
Lorna
There are different factors which support systemic change
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Importance of Consultations and conversations - In getting into different environments and in being noticed consultations and conversations
Promoting a Culture change in the authority by applying psychology in a multi-disciplinary forum and in a systemic way
The conversations that we have been having all over the city over the past 2 years have made a difference. We’ve become the Autism development Team. This is a two edged sword because we don’t want to the job to be shifted to the ‘experts’ but on the other hand our work has raised the profile of autism in the city – in schools and in our headquarters.
empowering people - Whilst some of us ARE very much more knowledgeable than class teachers – of course we are we are aware of the need to make sure that class teachers know that their job is to support all of the students in their class
Improving practice at pathway 1 and 2
Service delivery in the City of Edinburgh is through a staged intervention – Pathways to support - pathway 1 is within the class and pathway 2 is within the school. Our work has tried to focus particularly on changing what happens at pathway 1 and 2. By doing this we are aiming at real change throughout the system
Empowering people
How do we do this? empowering staff but also parents, carers and students – with this bottom up push systems have to look to change even if there is some reluctance to do so. We must do this through Professional development?
Professional development? Our work impacts directly on the professional development as a whole in the city: the schools and educational establishments and also of us as a service. At the moment I am steeped in autism but this year’s project is to ensure that my colleagues are abreast with the work we are doing and able to take it on as well.
Training In addition, training supports culture change and new perspectives – our training targets the Pathway 1 and 2 staff – particularly keen to ensure that SMT and PSAs are present so that this drip drip approach can begin to impact on system
Perspectives – we have been working hard to include the perspective of parent and child

4. Lorna
GIRFEC

5. Underlying principles
Empowerment
Pupil participation
Equality
Lorna
Principles:
Equality- inclusion and everyone having an equal voice- giving parents a voice- discouraging judgments
Pupil participation
Empowerment

6. Development process Hatty Development process Angus Web of Wellbeing
Consultation
Draft Tool
Pilots run
Transition focus
Rolling out
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Development process

7. School Tool
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8. Parent Tool
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9. Child Tool
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10. Wellbeing Web
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12. Powerpoint
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13. Next Steps
Refine the Tool
Launch
Train
Share
Review cycle
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14. In conclusion Hatty Our project is:
Culture Change
attitude change
training
resources
increased capacity
procedures
Hatty
Our project is:
Changing and implementing more training
As a result of that we are hoping that there will be more understanding of existing resources
And we are increasing resources by implanting some new programmes such as PEERS and the parental information evenings.
From all of this we hope that there will be a change in procedures – the reflection tool is important to us here but also that there will be better communication etc.
Then from this we aim to
Have increased capacity within the staff in the city of Edinburgh and overall an attitude change leading to a change in the whole culture