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Last week, while reading my SEN news feeds, I came across an article about dyslexia on the Conservative Home website by education expert, John Bald. John is a former OFTSED inspector and contributor to The Guardian. He has almost forty years’ experience of teaching people of all ages to read and write, to learn foreign [...]
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Common sense solutions to solving dyslexia issues
Posted by Special Needs Mum on April 23, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/04/23/common-sense-solutions-to-solving-dyslexia-issues/
Which learning resources help SEN kids? Take this survey
Ann Beck, of The Gift of Learning has asked me to help get her message out about a survey she’s devised to assess what kind of learning resources SEN children need. See below for details and a link to the survey “Can you help me to help your child learn? I have recently started a [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on January 10, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/01/10/what-learning-resources-help-sen-kids-take-this-survey/
What do parents of a newly-diagnosed child need?
I recently attended the launch of Family Voice Surrey, the new local forum for parents and carers of children with SEN and disabilities in Surrey. It’s part of the National Network of Parent Carer Forums and aims to give Surrey parents a voice in the policy and decision making process for disability and SEN services. As [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on November 24, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/11/24/what-do-parents-of-a-newly-diagnosed-child-need/
Special Educational Needs – Getting Started With Statements Unique new parent-to-parent ebook launched to help SEN children with ‘hidden disabilities’ get the help they need.
Today my book on is launched as an ebook. Here is the press release FARNHAM, 10th October 2011: A mother of two autistic boys from Farnham, Surrey has published a new book aimed at helping other parents navigate their way through the special educational needs jungle. While there are other books about the SEN system [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on October 10, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/10/10/special-educational-needs-%e2%80%93-getting-started-with-statements-unique-new-parent-to-parent-ebook-launched-to-help-sen-children-with-hidden-disabilities-get-the-help-they-need/
My new book for parents looking for SEN help – launched Monday 10th October 2011
On Monday, I officially launch my new book aimed at helping parents of special needs children get the education they need. It’s first coming out in ebook format, followed by a paperback in a month. The book’s called Special Educational Needs – Getting Started with Statements. It’s a parent-to-parent guide to starting to compile a statutory [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on October 8, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/10/08/my-new-book-for-parents-looking-for-sen-help-launched-monday-10th-october-2011/
Rose Dyslexia report – will it be enough?
Government adviser Sir Jim Rose’s report on dyslexia has been widely reported today. BBC News said, “More teachers will be trained to identify and support children in England with dyslexia, as a report says greater expertise is needed in schools. Sir Jim Rose, who recently reviewed the English primary school curriculum, said parents needed guidance [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on June 22, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/06/22/rose-dyslexia-report-will-it-be-enough/
Child-Free.. as free as the wind blows..
This morning, without so much as a backwards glance, both our boys climbed on board a coach with their classmates and set off for their annual trip to PGL. For us, this means no children in the house for the next four days. We still have the dog of course, but he doesn’t put up [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on June 9, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/06/09/child-free-as-free-as-the-wind-blows/
Parents rate local authority Disabilities service at 59%
When I was at school, a score of 59% definitely meant ‘could do better’, if not ‘should do better’. But that’s the score received by 10 local authorities in England for their disability services. The survey, completed by the British Market Research Bureau on behalf of the government was intended to measure parental experience of [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 15, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/05/15/parents-rate-local-authority-disabilities-service-at-59/
Great News – A Statement!
Got the news we had been waiting for today – Son1 has got the Statement of Special Educational Needs we had applied for. Don’t have all the details yet and we still have to sort out placement (which if I have anything to do with it will be his current school). This time last year [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 7, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/05/07/great-news-a-statement/
Celebrate Calm – well worth signing up for.
I am taking the liberty of quoting from an email newsletter I subscribe to ‘Celebrate Calm, written by Kirk Martin. It is about his son who, like many of our children, marches to the beat of his own drum: “The following message is very personal and my wife never likes me sharing it, but it [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 1, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/05/01/celebrate-calm-well-worth-signing-up-for/
It’s all about the school.
Yesterday, my son was discharged from regular check ups with his nurse practitioner at his specialist clinic, a cause for celebration. She has been a wonderful support to us along the way to getting the best we can for him but now he has started at an appropriate school for his needs, he no longer [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on April 12, 2008
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2008/04/12/its-all-about-the-school/
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