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Aims and Objectives
• To develop the range of skills required to enable the young adults to be
included as members of the community, able to use local facilities, and
participate successfully in leisure and work activities.
• 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 complex autism to achieve the highest level of
progress for each individual across seven Areas of Learning in the Prior's
Court Learning Framework:
o Communication
o Positive Behaviour Support
o Daily Living Skills
o Healthiness
o Keeping Me Safe
o Functional Academics
o Vocational Learning
This involves learning to:
• build 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