Today we are talking about something that can happen with many of our children, both at home and in school. And if you have a weak stomach, like me, it can be one of your worst nightmares. And that is smearing. So if you are looking for help, tips and information about autism and smearing faeces, you’re in the right place!

Smearing is hard work and it can quickly become mentally draining if you’re dealing with smearing on a regular basis. Whether it be around your bathroom, your classroom, or even your house. It’s not the nicest of tasks to have to clean up. And I get a lot of messages from people who are at their last tether, because they just don’t know how to help with the smearing.

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If you listen to the news, you’ll have heard recently that anxiety in children has increased by over 40%. And that’s a huge increase. With personal experience of anxiety through my partner, and children that I’ve worked with, this is close to my heart. That’s when I knew I just had to do a podcast episode on this. So, today, I’m talking all about autism and anxiety.

If you think about dismissing this episode because you don’t have any students who currently have anxiety – please don’t. Many of our students and children can be good at masking signs of anxiety. Or, you may get a student in the future with anxiety. The best way to help our students, is to have as much knowledge as possible. And this podcast episode may give you some tips to help you in the future.

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I hope you find today’s quick episode all about autism and anxiety helpful. If you have any tips or experiences that you can share with us, please do so in the comments down below. As you’ll know by now, I’m a firm believer in learning from each other. And we all have experiences in different areas.

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I’m so excited today to be talking on the podcast about calm down vs time our areas. This is probably one of the more controversial topics that I’ll talk about on the podcast. There’s so many opinions about using time out or calm down. And today, I wanted to share the pros and cons of both.

Whether you call it a calm down area or time out area – or you don’t use either! This podcast episode is worth a listen so you can find out more about both names. And how beneficial having one of these areas in your classroom or home can be.

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Today on the podcast I’m talking all about autism masking and sensory processing disorder. I receive a lot of messages and emails from you all about masking or camouflaging. And I thought the best way to help answer your questions – was to do a podcast episode on the subject!

I love being able to share my knowledge with you all, this time I wanted personal experience. I came across Emily on Instagram when she shared a great visual image about masking. And that’s when I knew, Emily would be perfect to come on my podcast.

Emily is diagnosed with sensory processing disorder, and she is currently going through the diagnosis process of autism. She is the creator of 21 and Sensory. And on here, she shares her daily life and experiences to spread awareness and acceptance within the community.

Today on the podcast, we are talking all about;

This is such an open and honest interview from Emily. I hope that you’re able to take away some ideas and knowledge from this episode today.

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Today on the podcast I’m talking about how visual resources can be used for everyone. A lot of teachers assume that visuals are only to be used in special education classrooms. But, that’s not true! Everyone can benefit from visual resources and being sat down and have a process explained to them.

My podcast episode today is a little different to normal. I know that a lot of you who follow me on Instagram love my daily check-in messages. And, after my operation, I decided to share a story about personal experience. From my recent surgery, and how I felt that visuals and time to explain stuff, really helped me. And how I felt when things weren’t explained to me properly.

The idea of this podcast is to just get you to sit back and think about visuals. Think about your students. Is there anything extra you can be doing to help or support them? Can you use visuals with your students?

So, put your feet up, get a nice warm drink and tune in to today’s episode. And, if you have a spare few moments, I would love for you to leave me a review on iTunes!

Thanks for listening, and I’ll speak to you again soon. Don’t forget to check out my other podcast episodes here. And check out my visual resources pack here.

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I’m so excited to be talking about my top Autism and Halloween tips on the podcast today. Halloween can be really exciting for our autistic students and children. But, it can also be their worst nightmare. So, today I decided to share my top tips with you all to make it a bit easier for you.

I’ve worked really hard to ensure that I talk about all the main issues that our students and children can face during Halloween. And then I’ve provided my best tips to make these easier and less stressful.

I’ve included some helpful links for you down below. Some of these are discussed in todays podcast episode too. You’ll also find some great Halloween resources to make learning extra fun this year in your classroom!

Thank you for listening to this podcast episode. What are some of your best Autism and Halloween tips? Share them with us in the comments section down below. And if you found this episode helpful, please consider sharing it with your friends and colleagues on social media.

Today I’m talking about echolalia. During my time where I’ve been out visiting other schools and classroom, I always find it surprising how little people knew about it. And some didn’t know anything about it!

Echolalia is where phrases and words are repeated. And this can actually be a sign of autism. This isn’t to be confused with young children copying you as they grow older. That’s a natural process for language development. This is more of a sign when the repetition continues on, after those young toddler years.

I hope you find this podcast episode helpful. Please consider sharing it with your friends and colleagues too for them to learn more about echolalia. If you have a spare few minutes, we would love for you to leave us a review on the podcast.

Don’t forget, if you have any questions, just leave them down below in the comments section and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!

Today I’m talking all about my routine for morning work for autism and special education students. I’ve been using this routine for a few years now, and it’s always successful with my students.

But best of all, it lets us have a positive start to the day – and that sets us up for a much happier day.

I’ve always found it very important to ensure that the morning is a consistent and structured approach for students. They may have already had a morning of uncertainty coming into school.

Maybe they got stuck in traffic, maybe there were roadworks so they had to go a different way. So you want to try and ensure that you’re providing a consistent morning routine for your students so they know what to expect in the mornings.

You may also want to head back and listen to last weeks episode, if you haven’t already, where I talk about task boxes. I love to use task boxes as part of my morning work routine. You can listen to it here.

Welcome to another autism and special education podcast episode. Today we are talking all about special education and using task boxes in your classroom and as part of therapy sessions too!

I love to use task boxes and if you follow me on social media, you’ll see that I have my task boxes set up into different months and they’re stored in the rainbow photo containers which you can get from Michael’s.

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Do you use task boxes in your classroom? Or maybe you’re a therapist and you take them with you to work with your students? Let us know in the comments down below what your experience is – or if you have any questions.

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