Behaviour and Communication
What's funded by the New Zealand Government?
Below is a list of programmes currently funded by the NZ government.
Early Bird Programme ( the National Autistic Society site)In June 2001 the Early Bird programmes were described as pilot projects which are part of a longitudinal efficacy study in New Zealand. (Results from the efficacy studies are not yet available.) The programme would be changed to suit NZ conditions.
In the June 2001 newsletter by the Autistic Association of New Zealand Inc, expressions of interest were called for by the Autism New Zealand and Spectrum Care who are involved in a joint contract to provide the three month parent training program. 10 presenters were trained by Dr Jane Shields in November 2001 to deliver this programme throughout New Zealand.
Early Bird is offered for families with children up to the age of 5:9 years (children can take part in the programme up to 3 months before starting school).
For further information contact Autism New Zealand: autismnz@xtra.co.nz
A Preliminary Evaluation of the National Autistic society's Early Bird Programme: Early Intervention in Autism Through Partnership With Parents by Dr Sarah Hardy is available by contacting: Lesley.Botwright@tees.ac.uk or writing to Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology, School of Health, University of Teeside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA.UK
SPELL Training
The SPELL training is provided by the National Autistic Society and includes an accreditation process for tutors. The course offers hands on support for supporters and skills for positive support within a good structure.
With a supportive training framework the expectations across services for access to SPELL training, not just for service providers, will move progressively through New Zealand.
There are several hundred people who have now been trained throughout New Zealand through IHC training. SPELL training is seen as part of the core training to be offered to staff within IHC before they are placed in support positions.The goal is to develop an external audit process around the SPELL training. An IHC representative believed that as the result of IHC staff attending SPELL training that there are visible differences in the lives of people with autism.
Training for Resource
Teachers for Learning and Behaviour
... incorporated extending the SPELL framework and acknowledged RTLB's
work with students with ASD who have learning and behaviour difficulties
and who were not funded through ORRS.
What
programmes are funded privately in New Zealand?
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Training for Resource
Teachers for Learning and Behaviour
... incorporated extending the SPELL framework and acknowledged RTLB's
work with students with ASD who have learning and behaviour difficulties
and who were not funded through ORRS.