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Aug 2, 20224 min read
Why We Need More SEN Teachers & Teaching Assistants
Statistics from the Department for Education have reported a 9.9% increase in the number for Educational Healthcare Plans (EHCP's) issued...
Jul 31, 20227 min read
The Best Teacher Planners for 2024-2025
As teachers or teaching assistants, we undoubtedly love a bit of stationary! The summer holidays is a perfect time to grab a new planner...
Jul 27, 20225 min read
Top Tips for Teaching Students with PMLD
Teaching children with PMLD is an extremely rewarding, but challenging profession. These wonderfully unique pupils have a high level of...
Jul 25, 20224 min read
Veganism in Education - Supporting Pupils
Becoming vegan-inclusive in your everyday teaching and learning practice benefits the wider cohort as well as the vegan children....
Jul 24, 20228 min read
What is ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis) and Why is it so Controversial?
Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) is an intensive intervention therapy based on the science of learning and behaviour. Widely used across...
Jul 4, 20227 min read
How to Ace your SEN Trial Day and Interview
It's hiring season! As a SEN Recruitment Consultant, I have spent the last few weeks constantly coaching teaching assistants and teachers...
Jun 29, 20225 min read
Autism in Women and Girls
Attitudes towards autism and gender are changing, although we still have a long way to go. Many autistic women and girls are still...
Jun 28, 20222 min read
Top 5 iPad Apps for Children with SEN
iPads have been a technological revolution for us all, but they can also be a revelation for children with SEN. There are over 20,000...
Jun 20, 20223 min read
How to Make a Pupil Passport
Pupil Passports are a person centred working tool suitable for those supporting pupils from EYFS through to post-16 provisions. The...
Jun 14, 20223 min read
Social Stories: What are they and how do you make one?
Social Stories are a fantastic way of helping children with SEN, predominantly autism, understand and cope with new experiences, changes...
Jun 13, 20225 min read
How Do I View IEP's as a Former Special Education Student?
For many families affected by a disability, an education can often be a scary view for the student being educated. The fact that he or...
Jun 8, 20224 min read
Supporting Students with Anxiety
1 in 6 children are currently experiencing mental health difficulties, and anxiety is one of the most common conditions, affecting...
Jun 5, 20224 min read
Supporting Students with Speech & Language Needs - Strategies for Teachers & Teaching Assistants
Speech and language skills affect all areas of learning and children who are under-developed or delayed in their understanding or use of...
May 31, 20222 min read
Why 'Traffic Light Systems' Don't Work
Methods of behaviour management that publicly name students are counterproductive and ableist. That statement may ruffle some feathers...
May 25, 20224 min read
What is Attention Autism?
If you work with children with additional needs, specifically those with ASD, you may have heard the term "Attention Autism". Attention...
May 10, 20226 min read
Attachment & Trauma in Education
What is Trauma? Although we want to think that every child grows up in a safe, loving environment, this is sadly not the case and many,...
Apr 20, 20223 min read
5 Amazing Benefits of Music Therapy for Children with Special Needs
Music is a language that is universal, regardless of race, gender, heritage, ability, age etc. Music can make us feel numerous different...
Apr 15, 20224 min read
Top 10 Behaviour Management Techniques
We all want every lesson to be the dream lesson, where children are enthused, excited and involved with all aspects of learning. They ask...
Apr 13, 20223 min read
Understanding Challenging Behaviour
One of the most difficult things that teachers, teaching assistants and support staff need to overcome in the classroom is managing...
Apr 10, 20225 min read
Supporting Children with Down's Syndrome
We are all mostly familiar with Down's Syndrome, some of you may have a child with Down's Syndrome in your class. You will be conscious...
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