Autism & SEND training for EDUCATORS and schools
Practical autism training and support, built in real classrooms.
Practical, evidence-informed training and community for educators and leaders, so you can understand your autistic pupils, adapt what's around them, and teach with confidence instead of guesswork.
2,000+ educators trained, 54 countries
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Self-paced, practical autism training you can fit around a real week. No overwhelm, no jargon. Just clear strategies you can use in your classroom tomorrow.
Everything here draws on twenty years of classroom practice, observing in hundreds of UK classrooms, current evidence, and neurodivergent lived experience. So the support makes sense to the adults delivering it, and to the children receiving it.
Hi, I'm Steph
Autism & SEND Specialist | Trainer, Consultant & Advisor
I’ve spent twenty years in classrooms teaching, observing, advising, across specialist and mainstream provision, from two-year-olds to post-16. I’m a recognised Specialist Leader in Education, and I’ve trained thousands of educators across the UK and beyond.
I’m also neurodivergent. I know what it’s like to have your needs go unmet, and what the impact can be on wellbeing and achievement. It’s shaped how I work as much as the years in classrooms have.
Advising in schools across London taught me what teachers actually need. So I built it: an easy-to-use training and resource database, made from what practical support really looks like on the ground.
FREE CLASSROOM GUIDE
Before You Respond: Behind the Behaviour
When it comes to behaviour, there is often a focus on what we can ‘visibly see’. I have come to learn that behaviour was never the problem, it’s often the message.
The ‘meltdown’ that came from nowhere. The refusal that looked like defiance. The shutdown mid-lesson nobody can quite explain. You’re still thinking about it later, asking what happened? What did you miss?
I’ve created a free classroom guide for that moment. A four-step tool to slow down, look at what actually happened, and work back to the potential need underneath it. This could be sensory, health, trauma, communication, regulation, connection, or another reason. Then a practical, do-it-tomorrow place to start.
Name it exactly as it is. Rewind ten minutes. Determine the potential unmet need. Find a strategy.
Use it once the moment has passed, when there’s space to think. Or bring it to a team meeting, working through a pattern with the people who saw the same thing you did.
Built from years spent in classrooms, alongside teachers doing exactly what you’re doing right now.
Here's What Senior Leaders Say...
"Steph’s guidance and support has been invaluable to our federation. Her expertise has
been instrumental in reviewing and improving the provision for children with SEN.
Steph builds excellent relationships with all staff members. Our support staff welcome her
visits and relish these as an opportunity to develop their practice. Steph will readily work
with children and staff to model expectations and activities that support learners to
progress.
Steph’s knowledge and expertise has been critical in supporting our SENCOs with their
strategic leadership of the role. Her feedback is always clear and actionable and she is
supportive of the needs and development of our staff."
"In the time that Steph has been working with my school, I have been able to see a sustained improvement in the provision offered. This has been the case in the growing knowledge and skills of the staff she has worked alongside, the physical environment provided for autistic pupils and the outcomes for those pupils. The excellent provision for pupils with SEND, for which Stephanie’s support was a key element, was also verified by my School Improvement Partner."
"Steph Reed provided me with excellent support in understanding how to support autistic students. Her intricate knowledge of the curriculum and specialisms with students with SEND was invaluable. Her style of support and coaching is tailored and she took time to assess my needs and the schools. I would highly recommend her services."
"Steph’s consultant work with our school has been a valuable tool in steering improvement of our provision for pupils with SEN. She works closely with senior leaders to coordinate our SEN strategy and plans her support based on planning meetings with our SENCo. Steph’s knowledge and expertise has been critical in supporting our teachers with their classroom practice. Her feedback is always clear and actionable and she readily provides resources and strategies to help teachers implement new ideas. She shares her knowledge and expertise with staff in a supportive way. Staff feel confident to try new strategies once they have observed her working with pupils and she takes time to reflect with them on what makes these effective."
"Over the past year, I have worked with Steph in her role as Autism Advisory Teacher for our school. She has supported us in areas such as: setting up an autism resource provision, general observations and recommendations to support individual pupils' needs and wider training for staff. Steph is very organised, knowledgeable and flexible in her approach, to ensure that your bespoke needs as a school are targeted."
"Steph has been a source of knowledge, expertise and compassion for many years in her time as our Autism Specialist Teacher. Steph explores the current offer for a child through meaningful observations and dialogues with staff. She is incredibly patient with all staff, no matter their experience in and competencies in working with autistic children and empowers and upskills both adults/parents and carers to evolve the support around a child."
