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Old 10-03-2009, 16:34   #80
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Re: teacher shut autistic girl a tiny room

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Originally Posted by nomadking View Post
There was no single correct response(even according to experts), yet everybody seems to say the the teaching assistant should have had one.

Her strategy may have worked at the time, it didn't, not even the experts could have predicted that with anything near 100% certainty, so why is she being held to a higher(and impossible) standard.
There is no single correct response for all autistic children. There is a correct response for an individual autistic child. The school has been failing this child because appropriately trained staff would have been in a position to work out a strategy for her.
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