The autistic spectrum includes children with severe learning disabilities, through to those with an average or high IQ. This wide spectrum of needs requires a wide spectrum of educational provision. Challenging behaviour in children with autism is certainly not automatic behaviour, but can be the result of anxiety or frustration that people with autism often experience. In our experience, when children display violent or disruptive behaviour in school it is usually as a result of insufficient support or provision. Exclusion should never be seen as a solution.
Given the prevalence of autism (about one in 110 people have autism in the UK), all mainstream schools should expect to teach children on the autistic spectrum, and have the understanding, resources, training and specialist support to meet their needs.
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