Inclusion Frameworks - Where to Start, Recommended Support Documents
Fostering inclusive environments calls for a renewed perspective on essential adaptions, accommodations, and daily support, with the aim of eliminating unconscious bias and stereotyping. ASIAM, Neurodiversity Ireland, NCSE, and the Department of Education offer invaluable support tools for educators, support teams and families. SUPERCALM have consolidated multiple source documents into a single information hub for easy access.
Published: 2025
By: National Council for Special Education - NCSE
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM (Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal: NCSE Relate is a child-centred approach that helps adults understand what children are telling us through their behaviour. Instead of just reacting to behaviour, it focuses on building connection, helping children feel calm and safe, and supporting them so they can take part, learn and enjoy school.
Published: Nov 2026
By: Neurodiversity Ireland
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM
(Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal: The guide explains how language shapes attitudes and experiences, highlights terms preferred by many neurodivergent people, and encourages moving away from deficit-focused descriptions toward acceptance, understanding and inclusion. It supports more positive relationships, better support practices and environments where neurodivergent individuals feel understood and valued.
Published: Nov 2026
By: SUPERCALM
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM (Other Stakeholders):
Parents, Guardians
Goal: This Simple Guide to Neuro-Affirming Best Practice shows how language, environment and adult responses shape inclusion, and provides practical strategies for describing behaviour, planning supports and creating predictable, safe learning spaces.
AsIAm in association with the St John of God Foundation, Lucena Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) published new resources, as part of this three-part series.
Published: 2025
By: National Council for Special Education - NCSE
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM (Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal: The content of the booklet is based on research evidence and the therapists’ professional experiences of working in schools. It has been created to provide information on sensory processing and advice on the use of sensory spaces that should be used for general purposes.
Published: Nov 2023
By: ASIAM
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM
(Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal: Research study exploring the extent to which education practices in Irish schools are inclusive of Autistic young people.
Published: Nov 2023
By: ASIAM
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM (Other Stakeholders):
Parents, Guardians
Goal: ASIAM feel "One of the big takeaways we hope parents/guardians get from this resource is that when it comes to education, your child/young person has more rights than you think!"
Published: Nov 2023
By: ASIAM
AIMED (primarily): Parents, Guardians
(Other Stakeholders):
Parents, Guardians
Goal: The publication shed like on starting the autism journey. To help with the concerns, questions and unknowns. Valuable for
educators to be aware to
support families in their journey for support.
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Published: Nov 2023
By: ASIAM, Lucena Child
& Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
AIMED: Parents, Carers, guardians.
Goal: Published for those understanding an Autism diagnosis for the first time. Knowledge you require to understand your child’s autism and support your child in the best possible way.
Published: 2022
By: Department of Education
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM (Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal: A working group was established to develop autism good practice guidance for schools to support children and young people.
NCSE & NEPPS have comprehensive support resources guidelines for setting up sensory spaces, special classes, movement breaks in the classroom.
Published: 2020
By: NCSE
AIMED (primarily): Educators, BOM,
(Other Stakeholders): Parents, Guardians
Goal:​ This resource will provide teachers with some tools and strategies to support self-regulation through introducing planned movement into teaching and learning.
Published: Nov 2023
By: ASIAM
AIMED: Autistic Teens
Goal: The publication shares many peoples’ thoughts, poetry, pictures and stories about being an autistic teenager.