Autism Partnership School is a non-profitable, nonn-subvented special school in Hong Kong. It is also the biggest private registered special school which can cater for up to 72 primary students. As the only school in Hong Kong specialized in treating children with autism, we accept students at different ages and levels of functioning.  

Over the past 12 years, Autism Partnership has come across many parents who have expressed their concerns over the lack of specific school placements for children with ASD.  Autism Partnership School is, therefore, founded for these parents who desire a quality, individualized education program for their children in a school setting.

• The school is specially designed to cater for the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We adopt Contemporary Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as our approach to teaching.
  
• Autism Partnership School is registered with the Education Department and has full access to resources provided by the founding organization, Autism Partnership, which has over 200 full-time staff in 11 offices around the world. Autism Partnership is the largest and most established service provider for Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services in Hong Kong and the only provider of CBT.
  
• The school caters for Cantonese and English-speaking children, aged from 4 years 8 months or above.
  
• There are typically 8-10 students per class with a ratio of at least 1 teacher to every 2 students.
  
• The 8,000 sq foot facility in Happy Valley boasts 6 large classrooms, a large outdoor basketball court, and indoor canteen.
• With the convenient location, we enjoy full advantages of Happy Valley which inncludes Community Training Opportunities to the library, shopping, eating at restuarants, going on public transport to causeway bay, and South China Sports Association for sporting activities
  
• The school is full time with 2 weeks vacation in the summer and 1 week at Christmas and Easter. The fees are $18,500 per month.

Autism Partnership School adopts Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the most widely approved and scientifically validated treatment for children with Autism. ABA is a highly individualized approach used to decrease problematic behaviors and to teach skills to individuals at all ages and all functioning levels. It is also the only researched intervention that shows a portion of children with Autism can become indistinguishable from their peers, following intensive treatment from a young age.

Our professional teaching team, with a minimum of 5-6 years teaching and in-field experience, had gone through a minimum of 400 hours of training in the first year and a minimum of 15 hours monthly thereafter from local and overseas experts. Their invaluable experience and skills not only enable them to identify and work on issues effectively and efficiently, but the high teacher-student ratio of 1:2 also allows teacher the flexibility to conduct big or small group learning and individualized teaching according to individual learning needs.

Autism Partnership School is able to concentrate its expertise, resources, and time for its target-group students so that learning outcomes can be achieved in the shortest time possible. These key factors explain some of the unprecedented improvements our students have experienced as some “recovered” from under-performance, inattention, emotional tantrums or socially inept and disruptive behavior and re-integrate to continue their studies.

Students need to be equipped with adequate skills before integrating into typical learning and social settings. And Autism Partnership School is the leading bridging school that offers an all-inclusive preparatory education for students’ mainstream integration. We identify issues at an early stage and introduce intervention to fix problems before they develop.

Our Autism-specific curriculum and individualized school-readiness plan are to address the most common and challenging issues in mainstream integration such as inattention, non-compliant behavior, socially withdrawal, etc. Students at APS follow Autism-specific guidelines in an adapted national curriculum approved by the Education Department. While they are learning academic subjects such as Language and Mathematics, Autism Partnership School provides them with training on Behavioral Management skills, Self-help Skills, Problem-Solving skills, Social Skills, Abstract Thinking, etc. We do not only prepare them cope for an academic life but also a balanced social life with teachers and peers.