I have been reading the agreement bridge and have found it to be fascinating. This past year I had a very difficult student who was undiagnosed high functioning autism. Boy..... I was so relieved to implement that form of communication with him. He would virtually shut down and disrupt with fits of rage before me knowing how to calmly deal with him. Overall the beauty of the whole thing is that ultimately he wanted to be heard and with me giving him that 5 or 10 minutes at recess or after school, he was able to pull through the day without distracting his other peers. I will miss him terrible as we formed a wonderful bond. However, I will be informing his next years teacher about the agreement bridge and strongly encourage that she use that approach, with respect to sanity!
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