Work Placement - Session 2

This morning we joined the class in a Basic English lesson.  The class was given individual workbooks and was told to work through it.

 

The boy I was working with couldn’t understand why I was trying to help him.  He felt he was capable of completing the exercises himself.  They were simple fill-in-the-gap exercises from a book called “Sound Sense”.

 

He said to me “You’re not my teacher, so why should I listen to you?” repeatedly.  I was only trying to explain the aim of the task.  It’s not often I am left with nothing to say, but I was left speechless.  When he had finished, I marked his work and gave him lots of praise, as he got it all correct!

 

Afterwards, the teacher explained that he can be moody with everyone on times.  Also, children with autism are resistant to change.  Maybe as thee week progresses he’ll grow to like me.

 

The teacher also told me that autistic children find florescent lighting annoying.  Every so often, we can’t see it but, it flickers.  Autistic children can, so specialist lighting has to be installed.

 

Tomorrow I am on lunch duty.  On Thursday ‘Super Chef’ Leigh (LOL!) will put his culinary skills to the test once again by cooking hot dogs with the children.  Ooh, how exciting! Roll on tomorrow! ...

 

Lots of love and hugs,