I get to meet many many different people through work and have to confess that the most fun times have been with autistic and "lower ability" groups rather than the bright privately educated polite schools you'd expect. We can bring lessons to life in ways you'd never imagine purely because something needs to be explained in a different way or perhaps we all just need to climb in the back of a fire engine to smell the fire fighter.
I hate hate HATE when a teacher introduces a child to me as "he's austistic" or "she's down syndrome".... no he's James who really likes dinosaurs and she's Becky who signs like a pro and has a wicked sense of humour.
It becomes a mission of mine with every child who has a workshop with me to make their teacher surprised at their abilities. I just wish teachers had the time and support available to them to get to know each student of theirs with their own quirks.
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Rant on Posy, it's all true
In the sticks near Peterborough
Cheers Dove.
I get to meet many many different people through work and have to confess that the most fun times have been with autistic and "lower ability" groups rather than the bright privately educated polite schools you'd expect. We can bring lessons to life in ways you'd never imagine purely because something needs to be explained in a different way or perhaps we all just need to climb in the back of a fire engine to smell the fire fighter.
I hate hate HATE when a teacher introduces a child to me as "he's austistic" or "she's down syndrome".... no he's James who really likes dinosaurs and she's Becky who signs like a pro and has a wicked sense of humour.
It becomes a mission of mine with every child who has a workshop with me to make their teacher surprised at their abilities. I just wish teachers had the time and support available to them to get to know each student of theirs with their own quirks.
Pansyface I was surprised
Me Verdun
I'm not going to get away with that. Too many of you have met me
In the sticks near Peterborough
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Blimey! If I'm normal, God help the rest of us. No wonder the world's in such a mess....