“The Long Road; Stories of love, hope and autistic young people with complex needs” features current Prior’s Court young person Zac, and Prior’s Court ‘alumni’ Peter and Jenny, and their families.

Through deeply personal accounts, it explores the challenges, perseverance and love that shape the lives of autistic young people with complex needs – and highlights how the right support can create lasting impact well into adulthood.

The focus is on the struggles autistic young people with complex needs and their families go through before a child comes to Prior’s Court, but also how there are lifelong worries for parents about what happens in adulthood for these young people.

Jenny and Peter’s families talk about how their children’s lives were transformed in their time at Prior’s Court, setting them up for fulfilling and happy adulthoods – but also presenting a nuanced picture that SEN families still must fight for their children throughout their entire lives.

This film focuses on Prior’s Court and how the impact the work we do empowers autistic young people with complex needs for the rest of their lives. But the wider point isn’t that Prior’s Court and our approach is the only solution – it is that the right support, in the right place at the right time for young people like those at Prior’s Court provides a lifelong impact that benefits everyone.

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