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Talking about transitions

It's time to think about next year. “Children with autism hate change” is something that you often hear. This is not quite true. Change...

Autism and girls

What do we know? Before looking at differences between girls and boys with autism, lets look at gender differences in typical children....

Building resilience

Children with autism tend to have very black and white thinking: mistakes and failure come in one size – bigger than a dinosaur.

Supporting invisible differences

It’s easy to see and understand the needs of people who have differences that we can observe – they might wear glasses, have a hearing...

IQ can be misleading.

Students with autism who have normal or high intelligence still face significant challenges. Their IQ leads teachers and others to make...

Generalisation – what is it?

Generalisation means what it sounds like it might – being able to make a general rule about some things or acts which are specific. Most...