7 min SENCO Autism: 5/7 Overreacting
Channel: The Sensory Projects
Date: 2021-06-18

This film looks at:
* Challenges faced during a school day 
* The risks of misunderstanding autism as a behaviour difference rather than a brain difference.
* Physiological differences: including visual processing, connectivity, conscious performance of instinctive tasks, time, emotion, pain, hormones, sleep
* Isolation

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You can find my son's book My Mummy is Autistic at https://bit.ly/MMIA-Grace
And my book The Subtle Spectrum at http://routledge.pub/SubtleSpectrum

Reading/Research relating to this film's content includes (do get in touch for further reading materials):

. Autism: A view from neuroscience - A CCN public lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2__A_Mb0V0g&list=FLvywTRPU1xuE6-wqYqTdoqw

Reachout ASC provides training on strategies https://reachoutasc.com/
As does Tigger Training: https://www.tiggertraining.com/


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