hey guys what's going on today we're talking about autism and education and
some special insight from my friend Chris from special books by special kids
coming up
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to hit the like and follow button see daily videos from me okay guys so I'm
joined today by a very very interesting guy a super influential I actually have
seen a ton of your videos before and you're a good friend of my friend ASA
mas from the father of autism chunks you guys obviously know a lot about and
Chris runs a channel called SBS K which you kind of how would you define your
table you can take them I like to say it's just an open platform for people
living with different disabilities to share whatever is they want to share
yeah sometimes the interviews are just happy-go-lucky sometimes they're
incredibly sad because I want to give a platform for people to share their truth
or whatever that truth may be no absolutely it's amazing because what I
feel like your tunnel does is it gives like a very neutral platform with non
bias and it just says it as it is and it's nice to give people a voice in
matter especially the peeps on the people you interview don't really have a
voice for saying what they want to say on a platform you know and I think
that's a super powerful is very powerful so Chris just for again started talking
about education and awesome you were talking about like metadata or
optimizing video content for YouTube and you said that you have a really
interesting take on why you don't focus on metadata at all yeah like I don't
even think about keywords it's the last thing you do before you upload a video
and I'm always like but there's a very young a very serious reason why I don't
concern myself too much with analytics our goal is just to create essentially
an encyclopedia of people living with different conditions and then explaining
what life is like for them so I have many people reach out to me and I can't
filter through who I want to interview based on what's gonna go viral cause
because that's just so counterproductive to our mission of inclusion for
everybody yeah yeah so when you start to focus on ok what's the hot topic what's
the hot word you lose interested exactly you might not go to that interview of
that person living with we're disability across the world but
then the other families who also are affected by that disability will have no
resource absolutely and we're very fortunate that it's worked out for us I
understand the analytics and all that stuff does play a big part in the whole
YouTube but it is now yeah I think it does not yet yeah but we've been good so
far no that's good and I think it's great and it's great to stick by it you
know ethics and morals that you you somebody especially with the type of
ugly to see that you're doing I think it's amazing but as you guys know I'm
obsessed with SEO and research and so it's one of my obsessions actually
improving you know adult instruction condition I'm obsessed with learning
certain things and this has been one of the thing you give me any advice like
because I honestly am at the beginning absolutely okay so off camera I'm gonna
give Chris a bunch of advice so we will do that so right now we'll get into the
concert why people want to come watch this video in the first place
okay so right yeah I know for a fact that Chris is gonna do a confidence
pretty soon in a couple of days on autism and education and the educational
teaching or something in the education department walking demeanor
so essentially I speak to parents and teachers of children with disabilities
and teach them how to form a positive bond with somebody and then how to take
that bond and then use it to help that person reach their full potential both
socially and academically and here's the pin the same strategies you're going to
use with somebody on the autism spectrum or the same strategies you're gonna use
with anybody it's just that's so often when somebody's niro diverse we overlook
these strategies and it's a simple strategy it's something we all know
everybody wants to be accepted absolutely but we forget that everybody
wants to be accepted not on their future potential but for their current state so
you take a kid who is typically developing when he's at the place he's
supposed to be you're able to praise him oh you're doing great oh my gosh we're
doing exactly what you're supposed to do but when you have somebody who's behind
a little bit we're so focused on catching them up yeah we never praise
them we never tell them they're perfect just the way they are and it creates
this complex for these individuals at such an early age that man I'm not good
enough good enough everybody's trying to change
me nobody likes me the way I am I'll never fit in it's not an accepting
feeling you don't feel accepted for who you are you are trying to strive to be
somebody that they want you to be rather than just like you said being happy you
know having joy in the fact that you are diverse and individual and I think
that's something super powerful actually and I know from my experience like you
know growing up in the 90s having Asperger's syndrome it's not you know
some of the most secure is severe cases or conditions of an autism spectrum
disorder you know I know they're if they're a bunch of kids who are
non-verbal there's there's a whole host of things that could be you know worse
than you know having a space in you know but having absolutes in happen was a
huge struggle for the fact that my learning Tech was was almost ignored so
when I was in high school and I was in primary school in the 90s you know in
the UK and was just autism wasn't a thing you know about you know nobody
know anything about it so I felt super excluded from the education stuff and I
felt outside of that opportunity bracket so all my friends were like set by a
level they were developing a certain rate the cost was made just like
completely falling backwards and with no support so they put me like special ed
classes which is just rubbish you know is coloring like pictures and like it
was just stupid like there was no math lessons it was you know you have to like
circle things that were related like so fall sports offer of this or circle all
the squares you know thing should weird stuff know about in real quick effective
special education can be a great thing in effective special natural education
can be babysitting of course it could be the adverse effect you can make use of
worse because it's nothing stimulates in exactly and you know so my partner you
still work full-time for a special education needs school she was a degree
in childhood studies in childhood development specifically in autism so
she know I she she loves that kind of like how do you know how do you how do
you reach his personal communication like you said having them being feeling
accepted feeling you know feeling like they
belong and reaching them with something that will help improve their you know
capsule not really capped enough but at their level teach them effectively so
would you say that like now there is there's more understanding and
unschooling is better or do you think that we still have huge ways to go
we definitely do have huge ways to go there is progress but it's minimal
progress and it's almost like as a teacher you have to have some kind of
complex where you need everybody to listen to you all the time you need to
have this grandiose feeling about yourself and in order to be inclusive
you have to let go of those feelings let hey this kid might have a processing
time that's a little bit longer you may not listen to you right away
and he's not doing anything to disrupt your class he's not intentionally not
listening and being non-compliant you just might need a little extra time but
so often a teacher takes that non-compliance in the first few seconds
and ceases as that child not listening to me so they punish that shot yeah yeah
so it's really just ignorance yeah yeah is a huge thing I mean what would you
say is the biggest issue facing you know children on the spectrum being in the
school of other education systems what would you say the biggest issue is is
everything a valid answer it's like suppose it would be if that's
what it's all so the answer is it that's really look at this the sad thing is
that the answer so simple these things we're talking about which people are
learning and whatever the 20 minute video mm-hmm teachers will tapas that
would change the way these kids are educated it's so simple
yeah it's not taught I didn't learn this I have my master's degree in education
I've learned this stuff it's all from personal experience so yeah I mean
that's you know I think like in terms of educating educators how how are we going
to do that how what is it's do you feel like it's gonna be best with things like
videos like this and your channel or do you think it's like creating training
programs to go into education establishments and academics to say hey
okay you need to really listen to this program well how do you think the most
effective way to solve this issue the way I think is most effective is for an
individual and not a whole community is what I'm doing with my videos I saw this
problem when I was in the classroom and I decided that I was going to MA
the correct what I believe was the correct behavior sound like I have all
the hands or something yes I can but I was gonna model it and then through
these videos I realized that I can model what I believe is the correct way to
interact with people and have a large audience watches so I hope that through
the videos I put out on SBS K people can watch them and learn ok well that's how
I do that or that's how I do that definitely I think you know like you
guys have such a large audience base and the share ability of your videos is so
high I believe that you are having a massive impact on helping educate and
change lives of people by simply putting it right you know like Excel watch
related videos and the way you your style approach to it is it's so warming
and I love watching my videos and for somebody on the spectrum watching it I
feel I don't feel on edge you know me so I watch a lot of things on Michael you
know they I don't I feel quite nervous when I watch things because I'm not sure
where it's gonna come I don't know how they made it with your videos they're so
like calming it's just it's dead nice you know and I enjoyed watching it and
sometimes not even because I'm interested no I'm content but I know
that I'm going to enjoy it because it's relaxing in a way that's good he was a
lot to me and I want to point out that I was it wasn't always like that it was
there was a learning process number one being on camera and interviewing people
I was still uncomfortable at first I'm not a camera person I was a teacher and
if you watch some of my earlier videos I'm really awkward I mean I'm still
awkward no no but I was way more awkward in the beginning and even with the the
methodologies and techniques on use that's all just learned experience so
you're watching this and you feel like you're not confident in the way you
interact with others the only way you're gonna learn is by practicing absolutely
I'm decided to say that like practice makes progress because everyone strives
for perfect right there's no such thing as perfect when you reach perfect you
just decline so always remember the practice makes progress and it please
relieves the pressure of you trying to reach perfect
nothing's ever perfect but you won't get progress in it and I think you're right
my first video I need you was terrible I filled up an iPad there was no
lighting and I have no idea what the camera lens to look at the camera lens
wasn't happened so it's something again it was a learning curve and I feel like
the takeaway from everything is that everything is
and it may not be the teachers fault that they're not able to effectively age
what some of them may not be able to effectively educate people in a way that
is its correct or not really correct but in the best they can because they may be
unaware of the information of the need to get access to and I think it's our
job as advocates and people watching with videos like this to share it in
those areas and recommend it to teachers so that they do stop to kind of then
reach out to programs and come and see talks like the you or I or whatever to
understand a bit more about that I think that that's a good way to do this month
and you reminded me of a philosophy I've always subscribed to since I entered the
classroom and it's just personal accountability often times if there's a
student acting up the blame will be placed on the student well why is he
doing this let's give him attention this punish him whenever that happened in my
classroom I would look at myself and say why is the student not exhibiting the
behavior that I want them to exhibit what am I doing wrong what's wrong with
the environment what can I lose week so when you have that mindset it makes you
explore it makes you change things and you realize that there's nothing wrong
with the kid yeah there's something wrong with what
you're doing improvements and you need to implement yeah exactly absolutely yes
yeah I've adapted that with my professional life but so if a video on
my channel doesn't do well I think to myself okay well but person like
interviewed was amazing what did I do wrong did I ask the wrong questions that
I edited the wrong way so when you take that personal accountability with
everything in your life it forces you to examine yourself reflect and get better
absolutely that was something that I learned with youtubers you watch the
video you think how can I prove this and even if you think it's a good video I
think maybe the audio can do better maybe the position of the camera the
lighting can be better right now I even know filming this that there's loads of
things are good of them better it may be overexposed as energy you know
the color correction pretty wrong but if we apply those same principles to
everything we do in life if it's advocacy education understanding
promoting self acceptance I think we'd all kind of progress a rapid rate and it
would be good if we could it would give everybody
but right with that being said cuz I'm gonna make you so much for taking this
time to come in the room and talk to us because we're here in Boston right now
doing a an amazing thing actually it's a the lead 20 leaders summit conference
get together networking it's it's everything all our campuses yeah
everything and it's all people like interesting myself who are working in
this field for advocacy for people with disabilities doing amazing things I will
actually leave a link in the description below if you want to check out what
we're actually doing here because what would I feel like what we do we just
we're at the start something absolutely phenomenal there isn't a super blessed
and I'm like honored to be here so and in the presence of people like Tressa
definitely amazing and I've watched these videos and now I'm super like oh
my goodness Chris is here so it's amazing yes I thank you so much yeah
it's such a pleasure I'm doing great things on your channel I look forward to
watching your videos for years to come thank you my I appreciate that I'm
saying I'm day look watching your videos so yeah awesome okay guys so thank you
so much for watching this video if you liked the obviously give it a thumbs up
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okay we'll see you get I'm gonna do my thing gonna do my thing Alex I'm good
yeah hey guys in this video we're gonna talk about autism and education and some
interesting insight from boyfriend kiss autism and education from some personal
insight into information that my friend Chris are from special books by special
kids can out to this channel family but more it takes the better that's what I
know it is it is hey guys good hey guys in this video I'm talking about autism
education with my Steven J Knowles