Teachers need autism training, as Cam Ward writes in the November 11th Shelby County Reporter (Alabama). Ward suggests that one way to provide teacher training is by making use of ACCESS, a distance learning infrastructure. Yesterday’s Guardian also highlighted why there’s an immediate and seemingly ubiquitous need for training teachers about teaching autistic students. A report from the University of Birmingham’s Autism Centre for Education and Research “shows that too many teachers and support staff are unfamiliar with the needs of autistic children and struggle to teach them effectively”:
…….instead of recognising the atypical development of children and young people on …read more