The Unschool Space

#17 The right environment and lots of trust - two essential ingredients for unschooling with autism/PDA, with Simon Crummay

January 16, 2022 Season 1 Episode 17
The Unschool Space
#17 The right environment and lots of trust - two essential ingredients for unschooling with autism/PDA, with Simon Crummay
Show Notes

Today, I’m talking with Simon Crummay. Simon lives in East Sussex in the UK  with his partner Wendy, and their son Luca, who is 13. Luca is diagnosed autistic with demand avoidance and went to school on and off for some years. After almost two years out of school, during  which Simon and  Wendy adopted an unschooling approach to learning, Luca now attends a self-directed learning centre in the afternoons. We talk about the impact of a child’s environment on their mental health, how learning can look for a child with PDA and why trust really is the cornerstone to all of this.

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