Fleur Woolley

“It is often useful to ask another person to come along to meetings at the school as it can be difficult to listen to what is being said as well as to think of the questions you might want to ask. Another person can remind you of what you wanted to get from the meeting. Lucia Santi, head teacher at The Grove, an autism school in Wood Green, north London, and parent of an autistic ten-year-old girl: ‘I’ve lived with autism every day for ten years and worked with it for 20 years.”
― Jessie Hewitson, Autism: How to raise a happy autistic child

“Autism should no longer be seen as a negative label,’ she says. ‘Autistic people are necessary for the development of our society. To show possibility and the ways we can make a different world with more understanding and opportunities.”
― Jessie Hewitson, Autism: How to raise a happy autistic child

“will be used only in the EHCP assessment and in the initial setting up of support, or they may be called in if a child is struggling. They are likely to recommend what support they know the LA is realistically going to be able to afford; it might be very different to what support a child ideally needs.”
― Jessie Hewitson, Autism: How to raise a happy autistic child

“I would have written a book about coping with an autistic child, looking at autism as an impairment, without realising how wrong that is or that it’s often a two-way process.”
― Jessie Hewitson, Autism: How to raise a happy autistic child