3 Minds
Sep 242 min read
Soon High School will finish…. Then What?
Term four is nearly here, and for families of autistic Year 12s, the countdown to formals comes with a quieter worry, what happens in January, when there's nowhere to be? School, for all its chaos, provides structure. A timetable. People noticing when things go sideways. Then graduation hits and it vanishes. Researchers call it the "services cliff", support drops away just as needs are changing. Nearly all autistic students (97%) need a level of support at school, and then it
