Question: whats the most unusual thing you have dealt with with the children you work with?

Louise Rodgers answered on 3 Mar 2019:

Oooh, that’s a good question 624reaq29! My colleague recently worked with a student who could consistently tell how long a task had taken, exactly, to within a tenth of a second. We all talked about that in my team because its so unusual and a bit savant-like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome although I’ve never met a student like that!

Often people with an autistic spectrum condition have enthusiasms for a particular subject or activity and some children I have met seem to know every fact about cars, dinosaurs, plane crashes or whatever they are interested in, and can talk about it for hours!