Encounters with a mind beyond words

Geoff Ward
5 min readApr 21, 2024

‘When the student is ready, the teacher will appear’, to quote the theosophists. But for Jes Kerzen, the reverse was true.

Just after gaining a permanent teaching post in a specialist unit for children with speech and language difficulties, came an encounter with a six-year-old autistic boy, Asher, who would change her life.

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Geoff Ward

Writer, journalist, book editor, poet, musician and tutor in literature and creative writing (MA and BA Hons degrees in English literature).