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Develop strategies that work for you
Everyone takes time to settle into college or university. Keep calm, and find out what works best for you! Starting college or university is meant to be exciting – everything’s new, different, a lot more adult. And if you have Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD or Tourette’s, everything can be a lot more challenging. It’s important to…
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Real life: a step into the unknown
For every person with autism, ADHD and/or Tourette’s, the impact is on the whole family. A parent in Scotland describes her own feelings as her son made the transition into adult services (Names have been changed) Linda says she’s been lucky, having a succession of supportive professionals involved with the family. Now in his early…
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Train to be your own friend
Finding out more about Trondheim’s “ADHD schools” providing information and support to young adults. When a strategy doesn’t work, how many times does it have to fail before you make a change, asks Bjørn Gjervan? “Something doesn’t have to be clinical, to have an effect,” says Bjørn Gjervan over a cup of coffee. “I describe…
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Things you can’t learn in school
A version of this article about Norwegian folk high schools appeared in TESS on 26 February 2016: https://goo.gl/s3h7z2. Thanks to Andreas for the photo! Some things you just can’t learn in school. Like how to catch rock ptarmigan in the Arctic snow and cook them over a primus. They’re sneaky: white, obviously, for camouflage. I’d include…
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