Pete Wharmby's Autism and Teaching Blog

This week I have been learning about the concept of 'camouflaging' as a technique used by autistic people to get by in the world of ...

I am coming at this purely from an angle of experience - please bear that in mind.  However, I have always had considerable success in helpi...

Asperger's syndrome, being on the autistic spectrum, is a combination of three key areas of daily difficulty: social interaction, social...

I've been in the job now for eight working days, and in terms of energy and the heavy weight of my eyelids, it feels more like eight wee...

Day 1 Having the sick bucket beside my leg is no qualification.  Upon rumour of sickness at the front of the bus, the bucket was passed no...

The council had decided it.   The beautiful village needed a bypass, and quickly.   Deaths on the main road had been occurring all too often...

What is it with commas?  At first glance they appear to be an easy-to-understand branch of the punctuation tree; a straightforward mark tha...

When it comes to teaching literature we all have our favourites: books that we have taught many times and feel incredibly comfortable with. ...

What is more vital? Teaching of knowledge or skills?  Anyone with sense will know that they are symbiotic - they work together to improve st...

A week into the new term and I'm feeling more positive about the whole teaching thing.  More effort put into my planning (see an earlier...

Hello everyone.  It's a cold December 1st, and now the joy I gained from my advent calendar has waned, it's time for another post. ...

When I moved to my current school, I was given an all-boys Yr 10 class.  They were the disinterested, naughty, often hostile students that h...