Writing at 6.00 am and I suddenly need reminding of the coldest of cold for this scene. I want to hear another writer’s description, what they chose to pick…
1 My son’s illness arrived abruptly one evening with every sign of stomach virus: vomiting, exhaustion, sweating, terrible bloating and pain. I said, Ring the café and tell them…
I began keeping sheep as pets because I had almost four acres of very hilly pasture studded with trees and bushes. Even a tractor struggled to mow it and very…
My CV is a long list of publications, teaching gigs and speaking events. It is barely more informative than the business card I never use, one that lists my…
Since Nick was diagnosed with autism in 1999, various education caseworkers have been assigned to him. There was a gentle man with a white goatee who retired to Yorkshire.…
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting — Sun Tzu It started with The War For Talent, McKinsey’s 1997 announcement that the world…
All human brains are similar in structure and function; it is the microscopic variation in how they connect internally, synapse to synapse, that defines our individuality and what we…
Alfred Hitchcock has something to tell us about educating children—I know that is hard to believe. I learned that during the film-making process he worked off two scripts.…
You have to hand it to kids with autism: they won’t tolerate being bored. From early in life my son made it clear that if a person wasn’t interesting,…
My son was diagnosed with autism early here in the United Kingdom, where the current wait for an assessment for autism is over two years. In fact, Network Autism recently published…