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...
Keryn Mells
- Feb 19, 2020
- 8 min
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....
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Keryn Mells
- Sep 19, 2019
- 4 min
Building resilience
Children with autism tend to have very black and white thinking: mistakes and failure come in one size – bigger than a dinosaur.
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Keryn Mells
- Aug 13, 2019
- 1 min
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...
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Keryn Mells
- Jul 29, 2019
- 2 min
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...
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Keryn Mells
- Feb 18, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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