Autism or Asperger is one of the most common learning and behavioural difficulties in the world today. Approximately 1% of the UK’s population are on the autistic spectrum. This equates to around 695,000 people in the UK alone so it is not that rare and it is useful to be able to recognise some of […] Read more »

Do you choose to wake up and go to work even though you don’t want to or do you call in sick because it feels like the right thing to do? Do you put a round of drinks on the credit card at 3am in the morning or do you decide not to go out […] Read more »

Following on from my previous post on how to detect autism in young people I thought I would share with you some of the experience I have in teaching children with Autism. As some of you may know from reading my about page, I work in a high school specifically with children with educational needs. At the moment […] Read more »

Animals are lovely. We keep them as pets and pay large amounts of our hard earned cash to go to zoos and stare at them through bars that keep us from getting mauled. We laugh instead of cry when monkeys jump on our cars and start tearing off the windscreen wipers with a wanton disregard. […] Read more »