Who are we?

Spectrum is one of the UK's leading service providers for people with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other disorders that affect behaviour, including Asperger's syndrome and ADHDs.

Our mission is to provide the highest quality services possible for our service users. We continue to work towards a day where all people with an ASD can have their individual needs met with appropriate services.

We live in a fast-paced social age, where on a daily basis our environment is becoming increasingly complex. With this in mind, the need for high-quality social skills to enable us to communicate, and effectively interact with each other, has never been so great.

This is a world that people with ASDs seem to see from a very different perspective, as they can often find it impossible to relate to what is going on around them. Living with an ASD often means the essential social skills needed to cope with society are lacking, which leads to a frustrating struggle to form relationships, communicate with others, and generally making sense of this world. There is also evidence that for some, sensory perception is different. For example, with heightened sound sensitivity, certain sounds, such as coughing, can become intolerable.

Spectrum currently provides residential services for over 80 people who are placed with us from all over the UK.  We also have an Ofsted accredited school, Three Bridges, which offers education to children with an ASD up to the age of 19.