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As a piano teacher, you probably consider music to be your area of expertise. But we also have to wear so many other hats as well.

When a student with special needs walks into our studio, we need to understand their diagnosis so we can teach them better. Sometimes we can feel completely in over our heads here. We might not know anything about the diagnosis, what it means and how to these students learn best.

That's why I'm so excited to be unpacking autism with Lydia Meem today. Lydia is a clinical psychologist with lots of experience working with kids with autism.

She has some really fun and helpful tools and tricks to share with us today, as well as fantastic insights into how to teach these students in a way that suits them. Jump in, I'm sure you'll learn a lot, I know I did.

Transcript

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In this episode, you’ll learn

• How the diagnosis process for autism looks
• Why parents sometimes don't want to tell us about a dianosis their child has
• What the ASD student profile sheet is and how you could use it
• Useful visual tools for working with students with special needs
• Why kids with autism often don't make eye contact
• How you can use textures to help kids connect to a piece
• A trick for working on collapsing fingertips
• How to give really clear instructions

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Links Mentioned

• Autism Understanding Favourite Resources
• Autism and Music Teaching: Tips from a Clinical Psychologist
• ASD Student Profile
• TED Talk: How Austim Freed me to be Myself
• TED Talk: Autism - What we know (and what we don't know yet)
• Positve Conversations for Explaining to a Child or Adolescent that they have Autism
• Cognitive Development Assesment Checklist
• Understanding Cognitive and Developmental Assesments
• Autism Behaviours during Cognitive and Developmental Assessments

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