Education Minister Andrew Barr said the announcement would fulfil one of the recommendations from a review of special education in the ACT.

The Shaddock Review, conducted in 2009, made a number of recommendations to improve education for students with disabilities.

Mr Barr said more recommendations from the review would be included in the upcoming May budget.

The expert working group will be made up of senior officials from Catholic, private and public schools, but Mr Barr said he would issue a list of names ''in due course''. He said there was often a ''disconnect'' when students with disabilities moved from one school to another.

The expert group would help smooth those transitions, allowing students to continue certain types of education or make links at the new school.

''It's really important that those linkages and a proper handover occurs,'' he said.

''And that can be even more complex when that transition is from a public school to a non-government school and vice-versa. We need to further strengthen those linkages, and that's what this working group will be looking at.''

Mr Barr made the announcement at the Southern Cross Early Childhood School in Scullin, where he helped staff and students mark the autism awareness event Bubble Day.

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