An Autism Leadership Team has been established at York Public Schools during the 2010-2011 school year consisting of a team of 13 teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators. This team was made possible through a grant funded by the Nebraska Autism Spectrum Disorders Network. This grant made it possible for this team of educators to attend four days of training/project planning throughout the course of the school year to develop an action plan of how YPS can better support those children on the Autism Spectrum as well as teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators of children on the Autism Spectrum.
The grant funding also allowed the district to receive several resources to assist teachers in learning about strategies to help children on the spectrum, and funding to send three ALT members to one day of the Nebraska Autism Conference.
The next steps for this team will be to give information to teachers on how to refer students who are suspected of having a disorder on the autism spectrum, as well as being contacts for people who may have questions about how to serve this growing population of students.
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