I have had the BEST day!! I went to an inservice course run by Sue Larkey on Autism/ASD and sensory issues and it was inspiring and helpful and fantastic. She is an amazing speaker and I came home wanting to be her!! She started out as a teacher who had an autistic boy in her class and no extra help or training and has gone on from there to be an expert in ASD especially teaching.
Some of the great quotes I got from today were:

To know someone with autism is not to know autism. Everyone is different even those with ASD
Choose your battles
Without a label you will be mislabelled like badly behaved/rude/undisciplined .

I have written a couple of pages of notes and I have some handouts too. She has written a number of books which I am hoping the school will buy.
Anyway enough of my new girl crush LOL