The Garden School is a highly specialist school for children aged 4 – 16 years with autism as well as severe learning difficulties, located in the London borough of Hackney in the U.K.
The Garden uses a child-centred approach to teaching and learning. A wide range of evidence based interventions and approaches to teaching are used across the school.
There is a lot that can be learnt from their video ‘Step into The Garden’; from the highly personalised learning, to ensuring engaging and exciting teaching, to the incredible and important family support, to the accessibility of visual supports that aid communication, transitions and learning.
TV presenter, producer, director and podcaster Gareth Jones AKA 'Gaz Top' joins Steph Reed to discuss the value of neurodiversity in the context of neurodiverse family.
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