Changing the lens of how we see students with special needs can lead to different responses to the behaviours. Students on the autism spectrum benefit from the predictability and consistency of the restorative questions. We are often called on as adults to translate and simplify the questions for students. Varying these same questions can help adults in difficult conversations about how adult behaviour is triggering students.

Restorative practices suggestions:

1. Restorative questions are effective with students who have special needs.
2. “Seek first to understand then to be understood.” (Stephen Covey)
3. Modify the basic restorative questions in order to promote understanding to and from students on the autism spectrum.

See www.circleforum.ca for live online restorative practices awareness sessions.

Visit www.restorative.ca for more information about the HOWTO of asking questions.

Order Steve’s book The Restorative Principal Leading in Education with Restorative Practices

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