Creating web resources to support early years settings with making Digital Stories for enabling transitions and assessments of autistic children

This project was devised to strengthen and maintain existing research-practice relationship with early years settings under the ACoRNS [Autism Community Research Network @ Southampton] remit and apply the methodology of digital stories to support autistic children's transitions between nursery and primary school. In light of Covid19 and the closure of early years settings, the project team are adapting their activities in response to a request from Hampshire Local Authority. Their focus is now to provide new resources to help providers create Digital Stories during lockdown: 'we need Digital Stories more than ever before as traditional transitions are going to be difficult before the summer.'