2026 - A New School Year
A shout out to all the neurodivergent families preparing to tackle their first, last or yet another year of school. The anxiety is real so go easy on your little (or big) ND people including yourself.
These are my recommendations, in no particular order, to help you navigate the first week of back to school with your neurodivergent kiddos.
Back To School for 2025
These are my recommendations, in no particular order, to help you navigate the first week of back to school.
Gestalt, Echolalia, Hyperlexia, and Scripting
In my previous blog I talked about gestalt processing. A gestalt is a multi-word chunk that a speaker hears, stores, and uses as a whole before having knowledge or awareness of its internal structures e.g., phonemes or meaning. Autistic learners are likely to be gestalt processors repeating language in chunks to communicate (echolalia) and also are likely to be able to recognise words as whole words without having to break them down into sounds (hyperlexia).
Neurodiverse Affirming Teaching Practices - Part 2
Neurodiverse Affirming Teaching Practice is synonymous with developmentally appropriate teaching practice. When the focus of learning shifts away from chronological age expectations to developmental stage understanding learning becomes more relevant, appropriate, and engaging.
Read Part 2 to look into how Rachel’s classroom experience could have been different…