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/1 Trying to do a tweet capture of @AutisticGirls_ webinar on nurturing your autistic tween/ teen @autisticrealms @neuroteachers @grrand_ioe @DrRuthMoyse @MrTs_NQTs @MxOolong @Spectrum0Gaming - disclaimer, I've not done ALT for most, as slides are Text & just want to send.
/2 understanding sensory is VITAL in helping to nurture your autistic tween/teen. School is frequently a point of trauma for autistic CYP @naomicfisher @_MissingTheMark NB increased anxiety can make sensory experiences more intense, challenging.
/3 many ways to be happy. checklists tend to miss this E.g. Questions about numbers of friends - It's possible to be happy with a few/ many friends. We're all different. Choose checklists wisely, even better- talk to your CYP ❤️lived experiences autisticgirlsnetwork.org/keeping-it-all…
“Perhaps even more damaging in the longer term will be the social, emotional and behavioural impacts of missing out on classroom learning and formative experiences during the lockdowns.” theguardian.com/education/2022…
Consecutive Governments’ education policy has failed. That’s a bitter pill to swallow; an uncomfortable truth. This isn’t blame, it’s fact. Those in corridors of power scratch heads - where and why and how has it gone wrong? And what do we need to change? A few suggestions:
1. Data is useful but is fallible, riddled with collection bias, blinkered, can lack context & can raise more questions than it seeks to solve. It can dehumanise & lacks qualitative detail, leaving a view of homogeneous data points in place of organic unique unpredictable beings.
Today is Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. If you want to know more about #DevLangDis , head over to the @RADLDcam timeline rapido.
If you want to know how #DevLangDis affects my family, here’s a thread from last year 👇
If you want to know how #DevLangDis affects my family, here’s a thread from last year 👇
Since that thread, things have gone really well. My communication difficulties with my eldest are now very different.
T’s doing A-Level Physics. I don’t understand what he’s on about - but it’s because I’m hopeless at physics, not because he has a language disorder /2
T’s doing A-Level Physics. I don’t understand what he’s on about - but it’s because I’m hopeless at physics, not because he has a language disorder /2
The look of gentle exasperation on his face when he tries to explain simple harmonic particle motion to me for the third time running makes me well up, for all the right reasons 😀
