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Understanding Autism

My Friend Autism

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The Differences Between a School and a Classroom

As a child, you know, and even now, the way I learn is obviously a lot different. My brain is wired differently. It can't be the same. But also it manifests in different ways, depending on coexisting conditions for example,. Anxiety, exams, assessments are all different. Attention span can waver your ability to listen if along amounts of time. So there's the balance between a classroom that may have a completely different teaching style tailor made to autistic people on one that doesn't or a classroom that can have more ratios, teachers to students or a class that doesn't. One child is entitled to go to a school just as much as as another child.

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