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Practical Strategies to Support Autistic Girls to Attend & Enjoy School

Find out why autistic girls who seem to be coping stop coming to school, and what they say would have kept them there.

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She meets her targets, she's quiet and she never causes trouble. Then she stops coming in. Many autistic girls mask their distress at school so well that the first thing anyone sees is the absence, while their parents have been living with the fallout at home for months.

The ideas come from doctoral research with 10 autistic girls who stopped attending secondary school, and puts their voices first. Their five recommendations are plain: just listen, be curious, put wellbeing before grades, learn about autism from autistic people, and act on what you hear. You'll see why an exit pass on its own changes nothing, and how a life chart can help a girl show you what has helped her and what hasn't.

The researcher is a former primary teacher and a late-diagnosed autistic woman whose daughter is autistic too, so she knows both sides of the school gate.

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  1. 1Webinar Playback37 min
  2. 2Q&A22 min

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