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Anyone have any views or experience of S.L.A.N.T. teaching please?

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Hello! newbie here. We are looking into schools, for our very recently diagnosed autistic child , and one of the schools seems very hot on the SLANT approach of teaching. It doesn't seem at all inclusive or beneficial to me. 

SLANT appears to stand for :

  1. Sit up straight  
  2. Listen - (Surely some children will find this much harder)
  3. Answer questions - (Some children have processing issues and need time to process the answer).
  4. Never interrupt (-hmm. good luck with that!)
  5. Track -keep eyes on the teacher-( I think some children might find it incredibly uncomfortable to keep eye contact. To the point that they are no longer absorbing any information. )

The brackets contain my initial thoughts. Does anyone here have any experience or views on it that they care to share? It's going to make a big difference to our decision, which we have to make very soon.  Thanks so much for taking the time to read this today. 

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  • Thanks so much for replying, Graham. I agree that it doesn't sound designed to allow for for the needs of an autistic child at all. I would go so far as to say that it does not sound like it is designed for the need of very many children at all, and doesn't appear to encourage inclusion or understanding of other children's issues by children themselves. (quite a few children who are affected by physical disabilities - i.e. sight and hearing impaired children, would also really struggle with a lot of these) Who is Roger Scruton, please?

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  • Thanks so much for replying, Graham. I agree that it doesn't sound designed to allow for for the needs of an autistic child at all. I would go so far as to say that it does not sound like it is designed for the need of very many children at all, and doesn't appear to encourage inclusion or understanding of other children's issues by children themselves. (quite a few children who are affected by physical disabilities - i.e. sight and hearing impaired children, would also really struggle with a lot of these) Who is Roger Scruton, please?

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