What are the signs?
What are the signs
What do I do?
What do I do
Who do I tell?
Who do I tell
DID YOU
KNOW?

You can avoid an anxiety attack by spending an extra few minutes informing a person with autism about a change to routine.

Behaviour

Your client is always late for meetings no matter how important.

Sometimes you feel like the client does not respect your time or does not care. You have told them not to be late, but they always are.

Difficulty

Your client may have problems with reading notes, sequencing, understanding time or following instructions.

This could be a sign of dyslexia, dyspraxia or ADHD.

Strategies

Written reminders, Colour coded calendars with icons, mnemonic devices.

There are many strategies you can use. Focus on helping your client identify the right strategies for them.

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This website helps you identify behaviours that may indicate a learning difficulty, understand what might be causing them, and find strategies to help. This is a recreation of the original 2013 site, released under a CC BY license.

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