Gill D. Ansell has over 14 years' experience of ASDs, and previously worked as a teaching assistant, both at schools for children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome, and in a mainstream primary school. She has experience of running support groups for mainstream teachers and teaching assistants supervised by an Educational Psychologist, and possesses an in-depth knowledge of the difficulties that can arise with a child on the autistic spectrum at school and at home, and how these can be alleviated.