To improve CPD around autism at her school, this teacher asked her students to co-host a training session
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Last year, I ran a CPD session for newly qualified teachers, sharing advice from my S4 (Year 11) life skills class, who had tried to explain to me what a day at school was like for them. The feedback I received was fantastic – the one negative being that no student was there actually giving their voice.
This year, that changed when Callan, one of my S5 (Year 12) students, co-hosted our CPD.
SEND: What teachers can do to help autistic students
These are the top 10 things Callan would like you to know about school through the eyes of a young autistic person, and what supports would help the most.
1. Be aware of sensory issues
2. Remember small details
3. Making links can be difficult
4. Fill in general knowledge blanks
5. Be positive
6. Give us time
7. Make text easy
8. Teach things more than once
9. Don’t expect the teaching assistant to do the teaching
10. Don’t walk on eggshells
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“Self Acceptance is a process not a performance”
“You are autistic enough. And you always have been”
Professionally Identified and joined WP August 26, 2013
DSM 5: Autism Spectrum Disorder, DSM IV: Aspergers Moderate Severity.
02 Oct 2020, 4:38 am
