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• To provide a safe and nurturing environment which ensures the young
adults to be safe and healthy and enables them to participate in a living
experience which protects their dignity, rights and freedom and
safeguards their vulnerability.
• To maximise the learning potential and life skills of all young adults.
• To provide excellent residential care and vocational learning (skills for adult
life) for young adults with autism and complex needs.
To enable young adults with autism to:
• learn strategies to self-manage anxieties and behaviour,
• develop a positive self-image,
• express emotions appropriately,
• experience fulfilment and achievement,
• experience a breadth of cultural activities which include those of their own
race, religion and culture,
• take an active part in daily life,
• become self-determining, make informed choices and be involved in
decision-making about their care,
• undertake social and leisure activities in their local community,
• undertake work placements which are built upon their strengths.
Living and learning
Prior's Court Young Adult Provision recognises the exceptional needs of this
group of young adults and offers a person-centred approach to accredited
learning and development delivered through the unique blend of autism
methodologies and best practice of the Prior Approach.
Through the Prior Approach, each young adult develops a person-centred
individual learning programme providing them with the opportunities to
develop the necessary skills to maximise their potential and ensure they are
able to lead full and varied lives within the community. Individuals are
supported to engage in a rich and varied range of activities and
opportunities tailored to meet their individual needs across their Waking Day.
Each young adult follows an individualised person-centred learning plan and
these plans are reviewed regularly by looking at the needs of each individual
while building on their skills, strengths and interests.
Key elements of the approach include:
• utilising the TEACCH methodology, a structured approach which provides
a structured way of organising the layout of the environment and activities
across all settings in the Waking Day, individualised and tailored to support