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Abstract: 

What happens when the increasing bank of best practice strategies that assist schools and communities in helping children diagnosed with autism to be socially and academically successful is coupled with a program that actively involves input from all stakeholders, including students, parents, teachers, supervisors, and administrators? Putnam County, Tennessee is an encouraging example of a successful implementation as it dedicates its resources toward the creation of a program with strategies that are generalizable to the wide range of ASD characteristics.

Keywords: Asperger’s; assessment; Individualized Education Plan; Portfolio; TCAP; MAAS; Annual Measurable Objectives; Adequate Yearly Progress; professional development; transition; modeling

Affiliations:  1: JP Associates, Inc; 2: Classical Learning Universe; 3: Putnam County schools.