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Autism, my app and me

Bethan Jones, 16, has Asperger’s Syndrome and was struggling to cope at school.

She tells ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 live about a new application called Brain In Hand which helps her to manage her stress and anxiety, and stops her from ‘losing it’ in school.

The app has a traffic light system which allows her to reach out to her support worker or her Mum if she needs help. She says: “Green means I’m OK, Orange means I’m not OK but I’ll be alright, and red means I’ve completely blown it and somebody will phone me and make sure I’m OK.â€

Bethan thinks the app has helped her to sit her GCSE’s this year, and she’s now studying child development at college. Her support worker Chloe Jones says she’s doing really well and only had to press the ‘red’ emergency button once recently: when popstar Zayn Malik left One Direction.

This clip is originally from 5 live Daily on 30 September 2015

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