Education statistics and children with 'autistic spectrum disorder'
This blogpost is a companion to a recent post I did on Departmentfor Education (DfE) statistics on children and young people identified withinthe English education system as children/young people with learning disabilities , recorded in an annual census of schools. This post reproduces some of the statistics I did for that post with a different group of children and young people; children and young people with a primary Special Educational Need of ‘Autistic spectrum disorder’ (this is the DfE descriptor rather than wording I would choose). As with the previous post, this post will mainly focus on children who have been judged to require specific support in the form of an SEN statement (historically) or now (magically) an Education, Health and Care (EHC) plan. First question - how many children and young people with statements/EHC plans associated with a ‘primary need’ of ‘autistic spectrum disorder’ are recorded in DfE statistics? The first graph below shows the number of children wit...