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Autism and School — 5 Essential Items You NEED! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Five items you get up on me to have a successful school career.
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  Let's get right into it guys. Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD.
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  I make weekly videos all about this stuff because I believe
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  it's my journey and passion and mission in life to help
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  enlighten everybody on the autism spectrum to get their
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  full potential out and be awesome while doing it.
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  So if you want to join me on this journey, we should hit the
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  subscribe button or click a notification bell down below and
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  every single day. OK, so school, Oh my goodness,
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  school was such a difficult one for me.
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  So I've been through school and in college and in university.
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  And so because of that, I was able to create what I think are
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  essential items, checklists for that.
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  If you want to have a successful time at school or in an
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  educational system, this is for you.
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  So buckle up guys, We'll go through the list right now.
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  first before trying anything, even if it is more natural.
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  OK, so the first thing I want to say is that you have to have a
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  tablet. Now, I'm not about tablet as in
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  like, you know, something, a pill or something.
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  I don't know about tablet as in an iPad or a Samsung tablet or
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  an Android tablet. What I found most interesting is
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  that when I'm attending lectures or when I'm attending anything
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  in school, if I had my iPad with me, I could actually turn on the
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  record button to record the audio of the actual class where
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  I could go back home and listen over something that I may not
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  have got perfectly right while sitting in the class.
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  Because there's this thing called Alexa thymia, which
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  causes for a lot of delay in understanding what's actually
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  going on at the moment time. But to cut a Long story short,
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  using the recording was so easy to kind of just listen back to
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  when I'm going over my revision notes.
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  Something else that I found super interesting about having
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  the tablet with me is that there was something important on the
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  whiteboard or slide show that I could take my camera app and
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  just take a picture of a slap shot of that.
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  And I have that then saved to my notes.
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  Not to mention you can always use talk to type apps on stuff
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  like the I know what Apple do it where you talk to it and it will
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  automatically type out what you're saying in your notes,
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  which is really good for people who have an issue with typing or
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  writing really fast. I found this super beneficial.
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  So that is like literally #1 The second thing I'd say is having a
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  sensory toolbox with you. Now, I don't mean having
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  anything crazy, but a few fidget gadgets or maybe even just like
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  a pair of noise cancelling headphones and sunglasses.
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  Something that is going to help you overcome sensory stimulated
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  issues of potential issues in a setting of educational
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  environment. It could be the lighter too
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  bright, it could be that there's too much noise going on, or
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  maybe each one like self soothe with like a STEM toy.
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  Having something like that is super beneficial and I highly
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  recommend it. OK, so #3 is a buddy system.
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  Now this is really interesting. You don't have to be best
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  friends with a person, but you need to make a buddy or have the
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  school or the educational buddy team you up with somebody who
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  knows the ropes or who can look after you.
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  If you have any issues that on the day-to-day that it's in your
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  class and you are spending pretty much every day with you.
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  I found this super beneficial. I had a buddy called Tom who I
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  used to travel in with and if I had any issues with stuff like
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  that, Tom would help me. You know, we'd put our heads
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  together and sort it out. This was amazing and helped me
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  feel less alone and also it was really good because I did build
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  a friendship with Tom. Not all the time that this is
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  going to happen when you have a friendship with a person, but
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  that person is your go to contact within the class that's
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  on your day-to-day because you could be on lunch and have an
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  issue and you want to talk to somebody and it's a good to have
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  a buddy. OK, so #4 is a personal learners
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  plan. Now this is something that needs
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  to be implemented from the top of the hierarchy in the school
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  where you when you attend the school, you sit down and speak
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  to them and say, Hey, I have issues in these areas.
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  I've layoffs and spectrum and I need help with XY and Z.
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  They then make a learning plan that is distributed to all of
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  the people who would be taking you for that year or for that
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  semester so that they know that you need certain help in certain
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  areas. And so they're not kind of
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  coming to you with a, oh, I didn't know you needed help here
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  kind of question. And I've been there in both
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  situations where they've been, Oh, I didn't know you had
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  issues. And another, the time where they
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  say, hey, it's cool, we've read your personal order plan and
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  it's all good. So that is a must speak with the
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  person who's indoctorating you into the school when you first
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  sign up. And the last thing here is a
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  student point of contact or counselor.
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  Now, I had a student mentor when I attended university and this
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  was amazing with stuff at godsend.
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  I was able to speak to them or anything on a weekly basis.
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  I could make appointments to see them at any time during the
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  week. And I have regular e-mail
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  contact with them. So I had any issues or
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  discussions that needs to be happening on more of a
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  professional or official official level at the school or
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  the university, I was able to come and speak to them and they
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  would take that higher or they would be the person of the
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  contact to go and take that forward.
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  Very interesting. And it actually made my life at
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  university a lot easier and more manageable.
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  And I don't think I could have been able to do my degree in
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  chemistry. I haven't already had that
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  contact. Guys, if you think this video is
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  I love reading college. I'll see you in the next 12
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  guys. Peace.