The Autism Education Trust

What is the Autism Education Trust (AET)?

The purpose of the AET is to improve the education of children and young people with autism.

The Autism Education Trust (AET) is a not for profit programme led by two national autism charities – the National Autistic Society (opens in new tab) (NAS) and Ambitious about Autism (opens in new tab) (AaA).

What does the Autism Education Trust (AET) do?

The AET is a partnership of autistic young people, parents/carers, academics and professionals. This, coupled with our approach to research and evidence-based resources, means that we have expert knowledge to share.

To achieve our vision, we will:

1. Share our knowledge and understanding - Develop standards and frameworks, training materials and resources that are current, bitesize, accessible, address the needs created by the pandemic and can be used flexibly by our training partners.
2. Develop the skills of the workforce - by building communities of practice through our training partners based in local authorities all over the UK.
3. Embed positive attitudes towards neurodiversity - by working with our Training Partners and the Autistic Young Experts Panel to promote positive images and examples of neurodiversity with their peers.
4. Support system leaders - by working alongside organisational partners and co-producing resources with leadership groups.

On the website you can find:

• Autism training
• Resources
• Parents information and resources