Week 1
Welcome to the Prism development blog! Each week, we'll be posting some behind-the-scenes looks into what we've been up to throughout the development process. During this first week, our team met with our clients at Beech Bottom Primary School in Brooke County, West Virginia, to talk about what they hoped to achieve from this project. [caption id="attachment_17" align="alignnone" width="660"] The team discussing ideas with staff members at Beech Bottom Primary.[/caption] From our discussions, we learned that children at Beech Bottom (and presumably at schools across the country) are somewhat mystified by their autistic peers. Despite attempts at traditional sensitivity training, the neurotypical children have difficulty understanding why their classmates on the autism spectrum will exhibit certain behaviors that, on the surface, appear unusual or disturbing. This will, unfortunately, frequently lead to…