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This article aims to provide ideas to help school become a place where your child can feel comfortable enough to engage with people and learning. Proactive adjustments and accommodations can help a child feel safer at school so that they can thrive (reasonable adjustments) so should always be agreed when areas of need have been identified. Examples of reasonable adjustments are provided, alongside ideas that can help stimuialte new ideas and ways of thinking about life at school. Adjustments...

Parents have spoken to me about the dilemma they sometimes wonder about with their autistic child: how much to encourage or insist that they continue doing the things in their week that they need to, or that are felt to be good for them—for example, attending school, hobbies, or meeting up with loved ones and friends. On one side is the consideration of wanting to be sensitive to the child’s needs and wants, attempting to create a good fit between them and their daily lives without trying to...

Young children develop in different ways and at different rates. It can be a real source of stress and worry for parents when their child...