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It could work. Having it being run by people on the spectrum is definite benefit.
I saw a documentary a few weeks ago about a school for autistic children, run by NT. It was horrible. Forcing kids to act 'normal' even when there was no need. They freaked out a lot. I'd prefer an ordinary school above that.
The thing I would like most would be a school with NT and autistic children, and with autistic and NT teachers. It might benefit all.

I don't know if it could be done, but I'd like that I think.
I am a part time tutor (though I am only 17) and spend quite a lot of my teaching time with aspie/auties students. As I seem to "understand" and "accept" them for who they are, we get good results, which can then impact the rest of their education.
It sounds like a good idea.

Theta Wrote:
I am a part time tutor (though I am only 17) and spend quite a lot of my teaching time with aspie/auties students. As I seem to "understand" and "accept" them for who they are, we get good results, which can then impact the rest of their education.
It sounds like a good idea.

BardWolf Wrote:
But are you yourself an Aspie?

Yes, I have HFA. I teach Maths, and have re-designed my materials, which were written by an NT, to suit my teaching methods and my students.
Also, I teach music, which of course if very much suited on the individuals in question, depending on the way they learn/listen/process sounds and information.

Yes, I believe that the relating to students is very important- as it ends up with the best results being achieved.

erkolos Wrote:
I made a thread earlier in the education forum - Ultimate AS School, I think it has alot of replies. One idea I just got was to let aspies at mainstream schools have the opportunity of more contact with eachother. Maybe putting them in the same classes but I fear that could give that class a negative reputation among all of the students at that school and make everyone in that class unpopular. The contact could be more of a "secret" or at least not that apparent.


Does that really matter?
Otherwice they get picked on anyway,only in Nt-classes the kids are left alone...

BardWolf Wrote:
This came to me this afternoon!

I had idea about making a preschool for auties and aspies! It will be specially designed and run by professionals with Asperger's and have a circulum designed for ASD folk.


What do you think?


sounds like a very good idea! maybe you could suggest this to a local autism support group or something

Yes it is a good idea in theory but in practice, people have to survive in the real world and cannot be cossetted within the cotton wool confines of an autistic bubble.  

And with a current LEA like ours, they get given a budget to spend on SEN students but it don't get spent on them at all as the Headteacher has spent the budget on other things.  I walk through the playground and see many Aspie kids, many ADHD kids and thank the Lord our kid is understood as others are not diagnosed at all either because their parents are in denial or the School don't want to spend more budget it has already spent!

Our Son has a statement for his Aspergers but not for academicness.  He is 10 with a maths age of 17 (I am really not bragging) but guess what, they don't follow his statement and it infuriates me that I spent four years getting it!

lindyloo Wrote:
Yes it is a good idea in theory but in practice, people have to survive in the real world and cannot be cossetted within the cotton wool confines of an autistic bubble.  


Well, if it was only a preschool, I think it would work. The "cotton wool" preschool would only help ease the children into the average schools. Maybe the teachers could have classes specialy to explain and ease the children in what to expect of the outside world once they're there.

I started school here in my country kind of in the second year of school, because I already knew how to read and write and do maths of the first year and the people of school felt a shame for me to waste a year relearning everything. But when I entered the class first, it was kind of shoking, because everyone was older and bigger, and all of them had already an experience of what school was like, what being away from home and being expected to do work was like, they knew what was expected of them, while it was everything new to me. So, to help ease me in system, the adults decided to allow me to participate in classes both with the first and second years for the entirety of my first school year, so I learned to live in their society while not losing time in my education.

I think that it might also be an interesting idea to do so in a special school. Have a first year complimentary to the first year of an average school, to help children fit in and push them in the right direction in school. Spending a long time away from home for the first year of school might also help those who have difficulty leaving their homes to adapt to the next years of going to school as well.

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