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From communication to burnout: Creating an inclusive environment for autistic learners with Joe Fautley
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From communication to burnout: Creating an inclusive environment for autistic learners
with Joe Fautley
Burnout isn’t one big thing. It’s lots of smaller things, building and building – until even the smallest demand tips you over the edge.
Joe Fautley, project coordinator at the Council for Disabled Children and neurodiversity advocate, returns to the podcast to discuss burnout, communication, and what it takes to build inclusive environments for autistic learners.
Joe speaks from lived experience. Non-verbal for much of his childhood, he lost hard-won communication skills when he moved to an unsupportive mainstream school, and spent years managing severe anxiety and extended absences. His story is also one of remarkable growth: from a child who couldn’t speak verbally, to someone who now delivers public talks and co-facilitates training for education professionals.
Together, Dale and Joe explore the direct relationship between belonging and burnout, why communication and mental health are inseparable, and why the single most important thing a school can do is ask the young person what they need – and actually listen to the answer.
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Guest
Joe Fautley
Project Coordinator, Council for Disabled Children
Autistic speaker, writer and advocate
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