Syftet med denna essä är att undersöka hur elever med NPF (neuropsykiska funktionsnedsättningar) kan bli inkluderade i skolan och på fritidshemmet, samt öka kunskapen kring hur lärare ska bemöta elever med NPF. Denna uppsats är skriven i essäform. I essän delar jag med mig av händelser där dilemman uppstått från min yrkeserfarenhet gällande en elev med NPF. I början av essän försöker jag, genom att berätta om några konkreta händelser från mitt arbete som assistent till en pojke med NPF, få läsaren att se vad mitt arbete innebär. Essän har fyra frågeställningar som uppsatsen utgår från: Hur ska jag inkludera elever i behov av stöd på bästa sätt på fritidshemmet men även i klassrummet? Vilka kunskaper hade jag behövt för att möta Noel på bästa sätt? Vem ansvarar för Noels skolgång och tillvaro? Vad hade behövts för skapa en hållbar arbetssituation för mig? Essän avslutas med en reflektion kring resultatet som framkommit i essän. Jag har genom denna essä kommit till slutsatsen om att teoretisk kunskap är en viktigt del i arbete med elever med NPF. / The purpose of this essay is to investigate how students with NPF (neuropsychiatric disabilities) can be included in school and at the after-school center, as well as increase knowledge about how teachers should treat students with NPF. This article is written in essay form. In the essay, I share events where dilemmas have arisen from my own professional experience regarding a student with NPF. At the beginning of the essay, by telling a story about my own work with a boy with NPF, I try to involve a readers a wittnes of my work etails. The essay deals with four questions on which the essay is based: How should I include students in need of support in the best way in the after-school center but also in the classroom? What knowledge would I have needed to meet Noel in the best way? Who is responsible for Noel's schooling and existence? What would have been needed to create a sustainable work situation for me? The essay ends with a reflection on the results that have emerged in the essay. Through this essay, I have come to the conclusion that theoretical knowledge is an important part of working with students with NPF.

Children’s literature that includes characters with functional variations is viewed as a tool to increase understanding in classrooms. However, this assumes that the characters are portrayed in a good light and present a positive image to pupils. The purpose of the study is to investigate how the functional variation of autism is portrayed in the book The Dog that Saved Christmas (2018) and whether there are any similarities or differences regarding student perceptions of the main character. Qualitative text analysis and semi-structured interviews with nine students constitute the essay method. The interviews are coded by using thematic analysis. The book content and student reasoning are both further analyzed from a norm-critical perspective. The result shows that there is no uniform image of the character with the functional variation of autism as only positive or negative. Instead, a combination of both these emerges. Where the student perceptions emerge most clearly is also where certain similarities and differences with the book's depiction can be discerned.