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Autism And School 3 Tips For Coping At School (This Is Why You Need It) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I think some autism in school. Here are three tips for creating
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  a coping strategy at school. All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I
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  make weekly videos on this type of content.
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  So if you're new around here and you just stumbled across this
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  Boom guys, what's going on? Welcome to the world where we
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  think differently daily. What is up?
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  Different? Think of FAM.
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  If you haven't already, make sure to go and download my free
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  Autism Life Hacks PDF book, which is going to help you so
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  much from autismhacks.net. Oh, yes, guys, what's going on?
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  Good to have you all here. I think it's like, yeah, I'm.
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  I just love making videos. I love making videos for you
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  guys. And yeah, it's super fun.
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  You're amazing. Thank you so much for joining
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  me. And I just feel so humble that
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  you've taken the time of your day to join me.
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  So I have been through school, I've been to college, I've been
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  to university, I've done extra, like, night school classes and
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  everything. And I have found that there are
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  so many issues with school and university and all those kind of
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  things. So I basically listed out three
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  of them. The most amazing things that I
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  used when I was in doing my degree in chemistry, which was
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  quite a an interesting degree because there was a lot of
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  people, there was a lot of stuff to do.
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  And albeit nice and fun, the actual way of learning that
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  learning, participation and style of learning was very
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  difficult, especially for somebody on the spectrum.
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  Learning styles are difficult for everybody anyway, because
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  they're all independent and individual.
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  But specifically, people on the spectrum have issues with
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  learning types. So I decided that I would write
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  down three of the best ways that I found to help people in
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  schooling situations and create a successful strategy.
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  Basically. OK, so get your pens and pencils
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  and papers out or your tablets or whatever you're using to
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  write down all these notes and let's get started.
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  OK, guys. So the first thing is creating a
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  personal learning plan, right? So first of all, your school, of
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  course, should have a Sanko coordinator, which is a special
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  educational needs coordinator. Now you want to meet with them
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  and ask them to help you craft a learning plan that can be handed
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  to every teacher in teaching classes that you're taking.
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  So that has specific special needs adjustments in there.
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  So for instance, maybe when you're taking, when you're.
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  When you're, I don't know, maybe you want to sit at a certain
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  place in the class, We're going to sit in the back, maybe sit at
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  the front. Maybe you want extra notes.
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  Maybe you need a little to go into the class before anybody
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  else does. All of these specific learning
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  needs are going to be put into the specific learning plans.
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  Like every class and teacher knows exactly what your special
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  educational needs are because they have an authority or duty
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  of care in an establishment of educational and academic need.
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  Then they should be able to. Well, they will be able to grant
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  that because if they don't, it's disability discrimination, which
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  is against the law. So you could ask them to set up
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  a personal learning plan and just make it adequate for you,
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  you know? And it's super awesome.
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  There's things like extra time in tests and equipment, using a
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  computer rather than paper when you're trying to write things
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  down. If you use a disastic like me
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  and you can't write things down as well as you can type them,
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  all those kind of things can really help you with your
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  learning needs and adjustments. Well, in classes and in learning
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  environments in general. I actually had a lab hand help
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  me out when I was in my chemistry labs.
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  Somebody helped me out in the lab.
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  It was absolutely fantastic, and without it, I would have
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  definitely failed my degree because it was just so amazing
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  to have that support. OK, so #2 is, label all your
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  handouts. Oh my goodness, guys, this is
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  the most amazing thing ever. So we all get handouts.
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  We get lots and lots of paper. You know, you're sitting there
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  in class and they hand out loads and loads and loads of paper,
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  and you have loads of things all the time, right?
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  And you can get very, very confusing.
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  And a strong point for people on the autism spectrum is not
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  organizing paper and paperwork, right?
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  I get. I get dozens of paperwork.
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  So this is the most amazing thing.
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  If you have all of the papers that you get in one day, right,
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  the date in one corner and then in the other corner, right page
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  one and then page 2 and consecutively and all the pages.
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  So basically when you get home at night you can find all the
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  pages. Or if you get home at the end of
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  the week, you can find all the pages that have the same date on
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  them and then staple them together in order of 123 to
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  concession to whatever it is, right?
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  And the same for the rest of the days you group them into days.
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  So when you're going back to look at your revision notes and
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  stuff like that, you know that all the handouts you have,
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  they're all grouped together in the same, in the same, you know,
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  in order that you got them. So you'll be able to understand
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  where they're coming from, what they say and what they mean in
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  just order that in that perfect organized order saved my bacon
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  so many times, I can't even describe how awesome it was.
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  OK, guys. So the third and final thing,
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  which is very, very important, which is absolutely fantastic,
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  is using dictation software. Now people with you know
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  additional learning needs will have access to the ability to
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  use certain tools. Typically people aren't normally
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  allowed to, but considering your learning difficulties in an
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  environment like academia then you will be able to have access
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  to these. Okay.
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  So the way this works is basically if you have an app
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  like the Apple notes on your iPad or iPhone.
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  I'm pretty sure that the Android ones or the Windows versions are
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  pretty much adequately the same. There is a function where you
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  can plug a little microphone into it and you click dictate.
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  And so basically what happens is you dictate to the iPad and it
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  writes out notes for you. This was fantastic when I was in
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  class and I wasn't able to write down things as quickly as
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  everybody else. I just turn that on and click
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  the microphone button and it would actually record what the
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  lecturer was saying. I'm putting it into note format
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  as in like written word. But then all and the other time
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  sometimes I was sitting too far away to get the actual dialogue
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  of that into written words. What I do is I'd switch that to
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  a voice memo and record the lecture in like a voice memo,
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  like an audio recording, so I could hear them talking.
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  So when I got back home I could just listen to that lecture.
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  It was like listen to lecture all over again like I go in many
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  times as I wanted, which is absolutely fantastic and was
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  almost life saving in certain situations, especially lessons,
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  where I was having issues kind of like really grasping the
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  concepts and the ideas that they were talking about.
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  Because sometimes it is just difficult, you know, it's
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  difficult for anybody sometimes in certain areas or of academia,
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  but especially when you have a learning difficulty like
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  dyslexia and autism, or if you have both together at the same
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  time, like me, you're lucky enough to have a very big
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  struggle with, you know, academia.
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  But that being said, these things, it will help.
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  Now guys, if you have anything to add, please pop it in a
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  comment down below. I read every single one.
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  If you think this can help somebody, please share it on
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  your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts because
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  that'll be awesome. And if you like this video, give
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  it a thumbs up and I'll see you next time.
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  Peace.