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The Autism Revolution: Education for All · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So what is meant by, you know, education for all and what is
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  that term really about when you're thinking about autism and
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  the revolution that we've had with autism and education?
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  Let's have a discussion guys. Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD and I make weekly
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  OK, so so you know, let's go back in time a little bit.
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  When I was in high school or when I was in primary school or
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  preschool for all of you guys, there was not much in terms of
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  autism support. This meant that me and any other
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  autistic individual were left out of most of the curriculum,
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  which means there was nothing there to accommodate it.
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  There was a massive chunks of my education that was just missing
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  because there was nobody there who knew how to deal with me.
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  They didn't know my learning type.
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  This is happening daily. I know, for instance, I was part
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  of a, an ALN reform for schools here in the UK.
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  And I, I published a, a video on, on Instagram asking people
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  to sign up a petition to get the government to actually act on
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  this. And we're still having issues to
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  this day on it. And it's 2023.
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  But when you think about, you know, the 1980s and 1990s when I
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  was really little in school, those things were kind of cover
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  practice where they didn't really know what to do with you.
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  So they lump you into a category of being, you know, the, the
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  unit kids. And then we'd sit and just do
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  nothing really. And that was really important
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  for me, an important time for everybody to kind of really get
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  to grips with a lot of skills and early intervention.
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  This is why a lot of the time we look at autism diagnosis and say
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  hey, autism diagnosis should be implemented early as possible
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  because then we can have intervention early and help them
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  achieve the best success as possible.
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  OK guys back to the video. But when you think about it on
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  the bigger picture, you have people coming out of school, out
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  of schooling with no support and no help for special educational
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  needs. Now all that is changing.
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  Over the past 15 years, we've seen a massive increase in the
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  amount of funding that's going to be available in Wales,
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  England and across the world really for autism and education,
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  because the stats are quite high.
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  You have one in 100 people in the UK diagnosed autism.
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  We have one in 33 in the United States diagnosed to autism.
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  So there's a lot of children going through a system that
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  really needs to protect and serve for these kids.
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  Now there is an educational revolution going on here or the
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  autism revolution where the education system is taking it
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  seriously. They are training their staff
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  appropriately and and they are able to have staff who can
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  accommodate autistic individuals in mainstream schools.
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  Because up until I'd say about 10 years ago, most it's not all
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  children with additional needs would have to go to an
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  additional needs school because that's where the specialists and
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  the people who are trained in that would have resided.
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  But unfortunately, when you have a growing population and a a
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  stagnant number of schools for special educational needs, then
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  you have to branch out into your typical schools and your
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  mainstream kind of education and seen how can we educate the
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  staff in these areas now? It has been a long, you know,
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  hog, but they're actually getting there.
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  And it's becoming so much more understood now in schools.
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  And it's all the work all the advocates are doing and all the
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  people who are taking legal action through the government to
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  make sure that this training is is importantly implemented.
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  I think it's absolutely fantastic.
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  Now, there's so many things that you can do now.
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  I would definitely check out your local educational board and
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  see what facilities they have for autism.
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  And if they have very little, you could always suggest them or
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  get a group together and suggest them because this is vitally
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  important, especially if your child or you are going to attend
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  a school or a governing body that is kind of lacking in the
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  areas of support for autistic individuals.
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  There is funding available from pretty much all governments.
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  So make sure you attach a letter to that and try and find the
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  funding source to reference when you're doing that.
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  Now guys, if you have something to add to this video, pop it a
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  comment down below. I love reading every single
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  comment gives video thumbs up and share it if you think this
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  is valuable for somebody. I'll see you in the next video
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  guys, peace.