“Alfie has severe autism and always comes to breakfast club. He arrives every morning and sits in the same seat and always has a bagel and a glass of milk out of a coloured plastic cup. Alfie used to sit quietly on his own watching other students for 6 months, until one day he moved seats and sat at the end of the table watching some other students play a game. The next week he went and joined in with the game which has now become part of his daily routine. It’s lovely to see him interacting with other students and it’s so nice to see how the students understand how he finds a change in routine hard, so they save him the same seat and they always sit at the same table to make sure he is settled.”
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