People naturally look up to those who demonstrate competency and caring, especially during difficult times.

This allows them to make a difference regardless of how excellent or poor their organization is performing. Still, leaders have and carry much influence. Criticism comes with it, as leaders are easy targets for drama, politics, and gossip. It comes with the territory, and we do it at our peril. There's no shortage of scrutiny for stepping up and wanting to make a difference in the lives of others. This is the path of leadership leading others is hard work and will always be challenging, not for the faint of heart. When we assume responsibility for others and take them into our charge, our lives become an open book, our behaviors a model for people to criticize, and our words an ongoing test to determine if we're telling the truth.

Learn more about ‘Why Autism is a Difference Not a Deficit’ here: #DifferenceNotDeficit #Autism #AutismEducation #GoodAutismPractice #AET There may be some shared characteristics, but every autistic person is unique, with their own strengths, differences and needs.

Understanding leads to better support for autistic children and young people in education.Ĭentral to this, is recognising that the autistic spectrum is not a single line from low to high it’s a complex combination of many overlapping characteristics. The aim of the video is to empower and support the whole education workforce to recognise and understand these differences. Flexibility, information processing and understanding Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing.Our BRAND NEW animated education video highlights strengths and differences that autistic people may experience in three areas of development:ġ. Intricately worked and sumptuously inlaid ethes and pulses with an entangled life, of the mind and the senses alike. It's success is as a novel of ideas, forcefully and often memorably expressed, while the story follows darkening fortunes into a chastened postwar world Helen Dunmore, The TimesĬompelling.strenuously inclusive and also tremendously enriching - an intricate tale, energetically fashioned from sturdy strands of material, by 'a spinning fairy in the attic', an indefatigable storyteller Irish TimesĪstonishing power and resonance Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph Superlatively displays both enormous reach and tremendous grip.sizzling with ideas and alive with imaginative energy, too.this is the most stirring novel AS Byatt has written since Possession Sunday Times Light and lustrous, commanding and transporting, The Children's Book is superb Daily Mail For fans of Byatt this is better than Possession. More than a novel, this is a historical primer, discursive, shimmering with colour and texture, containing stories within stories and giving walk-on parts to luminaries of the age.

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt