Apologies for getting this up here so late! Some of you may remember Sally Gorton came to speak to us in January about anxiety. Sally Gorton – Anxiety 2023 01 18 She gave a very informative talk on the causes and impacts including some physical aspects.
Continue Reading...This month’s meeting was meant to have a person from FIS (Family Information Service) come and speak to us, however she was unavoidably in hospital. Instead we talked about current issues with our children/young people, which was very helpful – especially to air our stresses in like-minded, supportive company. Linda…
Continue Reading...Richard Maguire mentioned monotropism in his talk last Wednesday (21/09/2022), so I thought I would post this You Tube link, which I found on another Facebook page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEtLOGcTA0A
Continue Reading...We were lucky enough last Wednesday to have Richard Maguire come and speak to us. For those of you who have attended any of his previous talks will know he is an excellent speaker who, because he is autistic himself, is able to convey the autistic experience from his first…
Continue Reading...There is a new SEND campaign that has started in the last few months called Let Us Learn Too. They have social media presence including Instagram and Facebook plus a website . Recently they released a video from children who have been excluded from school. Additionally, they have released a letter to…
Continue Reading...In case some haven’t seen the Panorama programme that aired a few weeks ago, we thought we’d post it here. The general consensus in SEND communities was, however, that this only scratches the surface of deeply imbedded problems there are in the SEND system. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mfns?fbclid=IwAR2wK3lX0Jpwj-ImcSBtP9k04ViS6GBnsbr00LdV1EEsmw8hwI3WXBqOSUY
Continue Reading...https://medium.com/@Oolong/making-education-work-for-the-next-generation-of-neurodivergent-pupils-15aaf89f1048
Continue Reading...This article was posted recently on the SEND National Crisis main page and we thought it would be useful to some. “Since the introduction of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) as part of the wide-ranging SEND reforms of 2015, some questionable practices have risen at local authority level. SENCO…
Continue Reading...Here’s an article recently posted on Facebook about school transport. Contact are part of a campaign to bring about change in this area. See also the Close the Loop campaign (also on Facebook) if you’d like to join and be part of the campaign. So many of us are affected…
Continue Reading...It was a great talk at this morning’s coffee meeting by Soli Lazarus of Yellow Sun. She talked about the basics of ADHD and how parents and schools can support children with this diagnosis. Soli has a B.Ed (Cons) in Psychology and is also the mum of a son with…
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