This study aimed to ask whether changing two factors; the peer environment, and the coaching approach, could change autistic boy’s experiences of team sports. For many of the boys, previous experiences had meant being left out, misunderstood, or blamed. Teammates wouldn’t pass them the ball, the rules were too rigid, and coaches saw a “naughty child” instead of a child who was struggling and needed something different. Over eight weeks, we saw that change.

With the GCSE exams taking place in May every year in the UK, many young people’s final push begins around January. They attend extra revision classes at school, take additional lessons in subjects they are struggling with, and very often, reduce their attendance, or stop training completely for a few months leading up to their exams. It makes sense on the surface from a parent’s perspective; to stop your child going to the boxing gym, so that they can focus entirely on what’

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