Sybil Elgar
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Sybil Elgar (10 June 1914 – 8 January 2007) was the first special-education teacher for those with autism in the United Kingdom.[1]
In 1962, she began a school for autistic children in the basement of her London home.[2] She helped to found the National Autistic Society, whose first school for autism was later named the Sibyl Elgar School in her honour.[3] In 1974, Elgar and the parents of some of her students founded the first residential community for adults with autism, Somerset Court in Brent Knoll, Somerset.[1][4] She was appointed MBE in 1975, and in 1984 she retired.[2] Elgar died on 8 January 2007 at the age of 92.
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References
- ^ a b Wing, Lorna (24 January 2007). "Sybil Elgar: Pioneer in teaching and care of autistic people". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ a b Goldman, Lawrence, ed. (2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. Oxford University Press. p. 344. ISBN 9780199671540. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Our Story So Far". National Autistic Society. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
- ^ "The SCAT Story". Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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