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Mind the Gap: can the protest culture really work?

The occupy movement is one that believes that large corporations and the global financial system control the world in a way that disproportionately benefits a minority, undermines democracy and is...

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Simile and Metaphor: Easy as Pie?

For an autistic student, simile and metaphor is a right royal nightmare. Imagine this. You are unable to see the world in any other way than absolutely literally. You cannot read between the lines,...

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Weekly Writing Challenge: My Autistic Lense

This weeks writing challenge tells us to try something completely different. So what I have done is written a poem, from the eyes of an autistic child. I am trying to imagine what the world must look...

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Loneliness in a crowd

I found this Daily Prompt and it really struck a chord with me. I used to cover a module of work entitled loneliness. The students were asked to write a letter to someone back home, imagining that they...

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Weekly Writing Challenge: A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words.

I will tackle this challenge from an autistic child’s point of view, how I think they might interpret this image. Confusion. so many thoughts running through my mind, I am struggling to organise them...

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Weekly writing challenge: the instant my life changed

This weeks writing challenge was easy for me: the moment my life changed was the moment that I knew that Special Education was the career path I needed to pursue. Rewind quite some years. I am a head...

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The nightmare of public affection

Body language, eye signals, embraces, all a bit of a nightmare.  The students I have with autism are so varied, it is difficult for THEM to understand what autism looks like, never mind what we think....

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How do YOU prefer to read?

How do you prefer to read, with an eReader like a Kindle or Nook, or with an old school paperback in hand? With a massive 75% of the poll vote going to E-readers, what is so great about them?  For...

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