Autism is not a mental illness or a mental defect. It is a unique way of learning and experiencing the sensory world.
It has always astonished me how educators guess at what our autistic children need in the absence of any professional documentation regarding the learning profiles or sensory profiles of autistic students.
A psycho-educational assessment has the potential to tell us exactly how our child learns, and pinpoint exactly where they are struggling.
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