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Western Autistic School, Laverton, Australia, is an educational organisation for students who have an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which was established in 1979 in a church hall with six pupils. In 2014 it has 320 pupils. The school caters for students up to grade 3. It has two campuses, the main campus at Laverton with 200+ students and the original school at Niddrie with 100+ students, an adolescent program called the Baseroom in Essendon Keilor College, in Airport West; an arts program in Laverton; and an Alternative Baseroom Program known as the Wattle Unit at Laverton. The long serving and now retired principal Val Gill, won the Outstanding School Leadership Award of the Victorian Education Excellence Awards, and received a Public Service Medal as a Queen's Birthday Honour in 2007.〔 Ms Gill was a vocal opponent to the creation of an autism P-12 school for Western Melbourne despite it being revealed in the Autism Education Provisions Review that approximately half the students from WAS transition to Special Education Schools. The new purpose built school in Laverton with a swimming pool, was completed in late 2010, and opened on 9 November 2011. The Baseroom program run by the school at Essendon Keilor College's Niddrie campus is due to shut down in 2016 due to budget cuts. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Autistic School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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