ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on listening to children as an approach to teaching and learning within inclusive education. It presents adapting methods of listening to children for the purpose of listening within inclusive autism education. In listening to children, adults are often described as needing to pay very close attention to the child's ways of making sense and to tune in' to their communication. Listening to children is a practice that exists within education as a method of evaluation of teaching and learning and as a pedagogical approach to enrich pupil learning. Children and young people with autism often describe their social experiences in straightforward black and white' terms. There is considerable overlap in the methods used to listen to children in education and methods used in child-centred research, research methods used with autistic children often advocate the use of systems of communication found in education as a way of structuring research interviews.
