• utism specific educational and social & personal development FE provision
• Day College and Day Service placements
• Courses start September - July for education placements; flexible start dates to suit individuals
• 36 or 38 week education placements; 50 week and non term time Day Service
• Age 16 – 25 approximately

General Description of College:
Whitegates is a small college dedicated to promoting quality of life for people with autism, providing learning opportunities via individual programmes and a bespoke curriculum

The Curriculum:
The ‘Stepping Stones’ curriculum is designed, developed and delivered exclusively by Whitegates. Its core focuses on the main features of the autism condition – communication, social interaction and imagination.
The needs of all students with ASC are met through the provision of individual programmes based on the framework of the core curriculum and additional studies either vocational or academic. A wide range of additional qualifications can be accessed with specialist support.

Specialist Facilities:
The college has small teaching groups (around four students average) and each has the pastoral support of a personal tutor.
Good use is made of the facilities to provide a warm and friendly supportive environment, where anxieties are reduced, helping prepare students to maximise learning opportunities. College time is highly structured and a 50 week provision is available.
Students have access to specialist tuition, high levels of learner support, individually planned behaviour strategies, speech and language therapy, Connexions advisers and transition planning.

Statements:

1. expertise in working with learners with autism spectrum disorder
2. expertise in working with learners with Asperger syndrome
3. expertise in working with learners with communication difficulties
4. in-house speech and language therapy
5. opportunities to take Pre-Entry and Entry awards
6. a personal development programme
7. a programme to enable students to learn more about themselves and how to form relationships
8. opportunities for learners participate in community activities and to learn about citizenship
9. a programme to help learners to look after themselves more independently
10. extensive use of specialist resources to access information technology
11. opportunities to attend local mainstream colleges with support
12. opportunities to prepare for further training after college
13. specialist community access training to enable independent travel
14. opportunities to prepare for work after college
15. opportunities to experience real work situations
16. a work placement scheme with local employers
17. opportunities to explore a range of living options after college
18. a supported transition programme into independent or supported living
19. a supported transition programme into supported or open employment
20. specialist staff to meet personal care requirements
21. day provision

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