The TreeHouse Trust

“TreeHouse is unique: its children receive an education unlike anything else that is offered in the UK, which is why those of us involved with the school are so passionate, so evangelical about it. We want TreeHouse to become bigger, and we want other children and young people with autism to get the right education – the way our children are doing (or “just like our children are getting”?). And the only way that’s going to happen is if some of us start shouting. I’m not much of a shouter by nature, but Speaking with the Angel is my way of at least raising my voice. I can see that what is being provided for the majority of these children with autism – and one child in every hundred children has autism - is hopelessly inadequate, and I want to give other parents the same opportunities that Danny has had – and help to create a climate wherein these opportunities are regarded as important.” -Nick Hornby

TreeHouse’s vision is to transform through education the lives of children with autism and their families. The charity was set up in 1997 to run a school, whose teaching is based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis, and to work with parents and decision-makers nationally to improve the education for all children with autism.

From an initial pupil body of four the school has grown to fifty pupils. A planned intake of five pupils each academic year will take pupil numbers to eighty in the next few years. Other plans for the future include a major capital appeal to fund a permanent building – the school and national centre for autism education.

If you would like more information about TreeHouse please visit http://www.treehouse.org.uk/

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