So the first battles for those with ASD were fought for the same purpose as the battles for those with severe learning difficulties. The right to be included at all. This was at a time when most individual with ASD were thought to have additional SLD, and long before the work of Asperger (1944, translated frith, 1991) became known, and before The subsequent change in diagnostic categories to include a much broader range of what became designated a spectrum of autistic condition (Wing,1996). However, even among those with SLD, it was apparent that children with ASD presented particular educational challenges, and it was left to the voluntary sector to make the first provision, as a kind of demonstration that these children were able to benefit from education. As ever, the first specialist,and thus segregated, provision came about through the work of parents, dissatisfied with existing provision, or in response to the lack of it.