Strategies that can be used to help our partners:

• Use simple, direct sentences when talking to them.
• Use visual aids to help them understand better.
• Repeat information if they didn’t understand.
• Explain things in stages, don’t give them all the information at once.

It is important:

• That we are patient.
• That we respect our partners: their needs and their way of doing things.
• To be creative.
• To understand that diversity exists.
• To be able to put ourselves in the other person’s shoes.
• To get to know our partner beyond the fact that he/she is autistic.
• To invest in communication.

We need to avoid:

• Reinforcing behavior that is not appropriate.
• Allowing other peers to laugh at what they do or say.
• Allowing our autistic peers to feel overly stressed.