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Keep planting seeds…..

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@DeputyGrocott Steak

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 OK - NO NEED TO SHOUT 😉

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 Perhaps this is what you’re thinking of:
Evidence of pervasiveness….so traits are:
1. present over time,
2. not limited to a single isolated situation or temporary circumstance
3. impacting functioning

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 NHS clinicians are very familiar with DSM-5 & the practical diagnostic criteria for ASD in ICD-11 & DSM-5 are very similar. You may see DSM-5 terminology referenced in assessment reports, research, or diagnostic tools even when formal NHS diagnosis is recorded using ICD criteria

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 As a SENDCO, I’m surprised you don’t take the approach of believing the parents and children until they’re not diagnosed as autistic, as opposed to blaming parents for their children’s behaviour. When you only see the kids in a tightly controlled & rigid environment.

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 Or maybe not! 😊 Perhaps I should have said:
“Wowsers! Your posts all read as though you give zero shits about children with autism”. It would be interesting to know how many of the 10 children who have been referred by you for assessment, are diagnosed as autistic.

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@ChristianahAgb1 @TTRadioOfficial I always felt like teachers knew back then, how important non-academic things were to help students learn, just as much as the academic stuff.

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 I wasn’t being patronising - I was saying it’s a shame your school hasn’t given you more in-depth training (time/funding barriers etc) for a better understanding of autism. It wasn’t patronising.

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 In fact, the child might not BE in school and so it would therefore be impossible to observe them in that setting. NICE recognises that some autistic children might mask at school & appear to cope in one environment but not another.

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 And there is no blanket NHS/NICE requirement that autistic traits must be observed in both home & school settings. They DO require that evidence is gathered by the assessment team from multiple sources (school,GP,OT,SALT etc) & in different contexts where possible.

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@Hossylass It’s not about what is it isn’t covered - it’s specifically about how their condition or disability (TD1 is classed as a disability), affects the person in their daily life. It’s about the extra support they need.

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 You make the ‘Right to Choose’ pathway sound like a bad thing! You do realise that the very specific pathway to autism diagnosis (or not) is a very detailed one that has strict diagnosis thresholds?

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@damechatprrr @tombennett71 It’s a shame you haven’t had in-depth training (assuming you’re school staff) to understand autism. When school cannot adequately support the needs of autistic pupils, the child gets home to their safe space and has a meltdown down, after masking & holding it in all day.

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@Headteacherchat Just send out a newsletter to all parents saying emails won’t be seen after …o’clock.And then even if they send them,don’t check them/answer them. If you’re replying email at 10pm,then it’s on you really😬
No business would usually be replying to emails outside their work hours

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God Bless the U.S. Military.

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@ClareCraigPath @a_kingswood Why the need, if pregnant mothers are advised to take folic acid supplements anyway?

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

Why can't public health understand risk?

Their optimistic claim is that mandating folic acid in our flour might prevent 200 cases of neural tube defects in pregnancy a year.

But with 70M people in UK that is a chance of benefit of 1 in 350,000.

BUT

69.5 million of us have NO POSSIBILITY OF BENEFIT.

For those people it is ALL risk.