Children in mainstream classrooms.

Hi, my name is Jodie, I am a third year university student at Cardiff Metropolitan University. I am currently writing my dissertation and I have chosen my topic as: 'How practitioners support children with Autism in a mainstream classroom?'

I have chosen this topic as my chosen career is to work with children with Autism as this has always been a passion of mine and I wanted to look more into children with autism being integrated into mainstream classrooms. I have heard both positive and negative experiences so I wanted to look more in depth into the topic to not only help me with my own practice but hopefully to help other teachers or professionals working with children with Autism also.

So, I was wondering whether any of you could help me with this by telling me your own experiences regarding your children, everything you say will be confidential and you have the right to ask not to be included at any time.

I hope I am not intruding and I thank you in advance.

Jodie :)

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  • Everything Longman says... but my opinion is that you (and many other Autism researchers) are barking up the wrong tree. If you want to support children who are intelligent but shy and/or lack social skills (whatever their diagnosis or label), schools need to start identifying their bullies as the ones who are "abnormal". And expel them, as schools used to do before everyone got so PC. 

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  • Everything Longman says... but my opinion is that you (and many other Autism researchers) are barking up the wrong tree. If you want to support children who are intelligent but shy and/or lack social skills (whatever their diagnosis or label), schools need to start identifying their bullies as the ones who are "abnormal". And expel them, as schools used to do before everyone got so PC. 

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