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Autism And School (5 Items You NEED!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Five items you get a phone. Need to have a successful school
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  career? Let's get right into it guys.
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  Welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD. I make weekly views all about
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  the stuff because I believe it's my journey and passion and
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  mission in life to help enlighten everybody on the
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  ultimate spectrum to get their full potential out and be
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  awesome while doing it. So if you want to join me on
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  every single day. Okay.
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  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 and
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  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 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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  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 worried about tablet
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  as in 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.
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  So I could go back home and listen over something 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 in that moment in 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, what I found a super about having the tablet
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  with me is that there was something important on the white
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  board or a slideshow that I could take my camera app and
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  just take a picture or a snapshot of that and I have that
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  then saved to my notes. Not to mention you can always
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  use talk to type apps on stuff like the I know that Apple do it
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  where you talk to it and it will automatically type out what
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  you're saying in your notes, which is really good for people
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  who have an issue with typing or writing really fast.
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  I found this super beneficial. So that is like literally #1.
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  The second thing I'd say is having a sensory toolbox with
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  you. Now I don't mean having anything
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  crazy, but a few fidget gadgets or maybe even just like a pair
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  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 to
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  bright. It could be that there's too
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  much noise going on or maybe each one of like self soothe
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  with like a stem toy. Having something like that is
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  super beneficial and I highly recommend it.
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  OK, so #3 is a buddy system. Now this is really interesting.
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  You don't have to be best friends with a person, but you
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  need to make a buddy or have the school or the educational body
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  team you up with somebody who knows the ropes or who can look
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  after you. If you have any issues that on
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  the day-to-day that it's in your class and you're spending pretty
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  much every day with you. I found this super beneficial
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  mind. A buddy called Tom who I used to
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  travel in with. And if I had any issues with
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  stuff like 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. Also, it was really good because
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  I did build a friendship with Tom.
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  Not all the time that this is going to happen, that you have a
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  friendship with a person, but that person is your go to
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  contact within the class that's on your day-to-day because you
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  could be on lunch and have an issue and you want to talk to
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  somebody and it's good to have a buddy.
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  Case number four is a personal learner's plan.
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  Now this is something that needs to be implemented from the top
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  of the hierarchy in the school where you, when you attend the
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  school, you sit down and speak them and say, hey, I have issues
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  in these areas of Nelson spectrum and I need help with XY
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  and Z And then make a learning plan that is distributed to all
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  of the people who would be taking you for that year or for
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  that semester so that they know that you need certain help in
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  certain 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 time where they say,
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  hey, it's cool, we've led you, we've read your personal
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  environment, it's all good. So that is a must speak with the
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  person who's in indoctrinating you into the school when you
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  first sign up. And the last thing here is a
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  student point of contact or counsellor.
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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 a point was to see them at any time during the week
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  and I have regular e-mail contact with them so I had any
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  issues or 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
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  them and they would take that higher or they would be the
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  person of the contact to go and take that forward.
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  Very interesting and it actually made my life at university a lot
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  easier and more manageable. I don't think I could have been
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  able to do my degree in chemistry.
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  I haven't already had that contact.
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  I love reading college. I'll see you in the next fall
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  guys. Peace.
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  Peace.