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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/
The lifetime legacy of special needs left by meningitis
I recently met the chief executive of The Meningitis Trust, Sue Davie, and heard her talk about the hidden after-effects that meningitis can leave on children who’ve apparently recovered. The special needs they have due to acquired brain injury are often missed, but in this guest post, she explains how the illness can leave a [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on April 10, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/04/10/the-lifetime-legacy-of-special-needs-left-by-meningitis/
Cracking special needs stories for the Easter weekend
Happy Easter! Why not spend a few minutes this long weekend to catch up on some of the past week’s special needs and disability stories? Here’s my pick: Special Needs Jungle: Real tips from real carers – a new tool from NetBuddy and NHS Carers Direct International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics: Pregnancy length shown [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on April 6, 2012
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2012/04/06/1096/
SEN Conference and launch coming up in Newbury in October
A two-day conference is being held for parents and professionals concerned with special educational needs is being held in Newbury, Berkshire on 14th and 15th October 2011. The conference, entitled “Towards a Positive Future” is aimed at parents and professionals, to inspire, share experiences and discover how they can achieve more for children with special needs. [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on October 3, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/10/03/sen-conference-and-launch-coming-up-in-newbury-in-october/
Great Expectations – Educational Support campaign from NAS
This post is reproduced with kind permission from the National Autistic Society Half of all children with autism wait over a year for appropriate educational support, and over a quarter have waited more than two years, finds a new report by The National Autistic Society, published today. The report launches our Great Expectations campaign on Special [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on June 27, 2011
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2011/06/27/great-expectations-educational-support-campaign-from-nas/
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/
Mother Needs Help For Self-Harming Son
I have just been contacted through this site by Sharon, a mother from Kent, whose son has been excluded from school following incidents of self-harming. She writes, “My ADHD, ASD, Dyslexic, self-harming son, has just been excluded from school, because they don’t think Luke trying to strangle himself in class or him regularly saying he [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 17, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/05/17/mother-needs-help-for-self-harming-son/
Government Supports Autism Bill (UK)
The Government has, for the first time, declared its support for what could be England’s first Autism Bill. The National Autistic Society (NAS) celebrated the move as a vital development for people with autism as Care Services Minister Phil Hope committed to enshrining in law a raft of new measures, via the Autism Bill, which [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on May 15, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/05/15/government-supports-autism-bill-uk/
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/
Surrey to review SEN Assessments
I recently attended a Partnership with Parents workshop in Surrey. The subject matters were an explanation of the new SEND rules given by one of the co-chairmen,an update on the Lamb inquiry and a presentation from the new Head of Surrey SEN, Debbie Johnson, asking ‘Why do so many parents appeal against Surrey’s ‘Refusal to [...]
Posted by Special Needs Mum on March 3, 2009
http://specialneedsjungle.com/2009/03/03/surrey-to-change-sen-assessment-system/
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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