Just a quick note to thank you for keeping me up until 1.00 this morning thanks to your recomendation that I read ' The curious incident...'. The last time I stayed up till the wee small hours it was thanks to your recomendation of the 'Red Tent'. Stop it please! I'm too old for this sort of thing!
Amazing book. Is the authour on the ASD spectum? Family member? Should be compulsory reading for all teachers, sod that, everyone.
As an aside, and I know that you get fed up of these sorts of pollyanna stories, but I'm teaching the most amazing boy. He has high functioning autism. 3 years ago he had to be taught in isolation and was a danger to himself and others. He is now fully integrated into classes without support, and if you didn't know the past history you wouldn't know there had been a probelm. He is, without a doubt, the brightest boy is the brightest class in the year by quite a way. I can keep up with him, he is in Y10, but next year will be an education for me! If ever I have taught a child who could change the way we see the world it is him. Amazing.