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Five tips for autistic students starting college or university

On paper, I’m an amazing student. I have a Bachelors degree in Mathematics with Education (with honours), a postgraduate primary teaching PGCE, and last year I graduated with distinction in my Masters in Creati...

Autism and exam stress: 10 tips from personal experience

When I was sixteen, I took fourteen exams in three weeks. In the next two years, I took another sixteen plus a bunch of resits too. At university, I took twenty-four. I did all of them without having any ...

The balance between helping autistic people and doing it for them (and how to get it right)

During my work in special education, one story that really stuck with me involved a sixteen-year-old girl who came to us after a lifetime in mainstream schools. The most revealing moment of her first week came ...

A survival guide for Year Sixes preparing for their SATs (from an autistic teacher)

There are so many advice articles out there for parents. This one’s for children. In particular, this is for the thousands of Year Six children who are about to take their end-of-primary-school SAT...

Asperger’s versus the Bullies: 8 Important Tips for Coping with Bullying

This may turn out to be the most important article I have ever written. And it may not be light reading: powerful subjects need powerful words. Teenagers, this one's for you again. The story of ...

Ten reasons your autistic child needs to learn chess right now

Ah, chess. The game of kings... and Aspies. Now, before I begin, I expect a few readers will come up with the following reasons for their autistic child to not learn chess. Oh, he’ll just thro...

How hard can it be to fund a school for disabled children?

I’ve often heard that you can judge a whole society on how it treats its most vulnerable. And I’m not going to reinforce that sentence with anything. You’re all bright enough to draw your own conclusions from ...

Story of an Autistic Teacher: encouraging autistic children beyond their ‘natural limits’

I usually make my posts very personal. I think the human element is extremely important. This may be one of the more difficult posts to write. Because this one doesn’t just describe my brain. It tells my story....

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