On request of the parents and with permission of the school, facilitators may be placed in day cares or in schools to "shadow" a child with autism. Alternatively, we have consulted to school on how to provide supported inclusion.

We typically focus on five “survival” skills for the child with autism to learn that are associated with success in a school setting:

• Ability to participate and learn in a group
• Ability to follow routines independently
• Ability to communicate needs independently
• Ability to initiate and sustain reciprocal peer interaction
• Reduction of problem behaviours that interfere with learning (e.g., stereotypy, aggression)

We provide information on practical classroom strategies to teach each of those target areas.