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Special Needs Jungle

English - Special Needs, Parenting, Autism
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Special Needs Jungle · 1d ago

Research, articles & opinion – special needs news from this week

An incredibly busy week, so I missed my Wednesday post as I was in Brussels to speak at a EURORDIS workshop on social media for rare disease organisations. I was describing how we set up the social media for DysNet, the new Limb Difference Network for which I am PR & Community Manager. It was [...]
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Special Needs Jungle · 5d ago

Launching DysNet – and how the right education helped one man make a difference, despite disability

For the past two months, in addition to my special needs work, I’ve been working on an exciting project to launch an online community network for people living with limb differences. DysNet is the brainchild of a dear friend of mine, Geoff Adams-Spink, about whom I’ve written on this blog before. It
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Special Needs Jungle · 1W ago

SEN Green Paper response round up and other special needs stories

It’s been something of an eventful week for both Special Needs and Special Needs Jungle. Last week, I was called up by a reporter from the Daily Telegraph to ask my views on whether I thought one in five schoolchildren really had special needs. We had a good chat and the article appeared on Saturday
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Special Needs Jungle · 1W ago

SEN – The Next Steps – My views & Meridian Tonight feature

So, there’s been much furore today about the headlines for proposals that  450,000 children be ‘struck off’ the SEN register. This is a bit of a stupid headline, to say the least. I was interviewed by Meridian Tonight (clip at end of post) about it for my views as a parent of SEN children. The [...]
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Special Needs Jungle · 1W ago

The benefits of ‘Floortime’ for autism – and win tickets to a Floortime workshop!

An US company that offers a unique therapy to help parents and professionals communicate better with children with autism/special needs, is offering London-based workshops in the the technique. Floortime is a specific therapeutic technique based on the Developmental Individual Difference Relationshi
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Special Needs Jungle · 2W ago

Special Needs Jungle in the Daily Telegraph. What I really think

There’s a story about SEN in the Daily Telegraph today “Can 20 per cent of schoolchildren really have special needs?” by Peter Stanford. It’s already attracted lots of comments, some informed, others somewhat less so, shall we say. The story is a follow on to other, recent reports blaming rising SEN
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Special Needs Jungle · 2W ago

Great special needs stories, blogs and a cute dog too

For the first time this week, I’m alone in the house, apart from Leo the Labradoodle, currently sulking because he had to have a bath after rolling in something revolting. I haven’t told him yet it’s his anti-flea treatment day too, which he’s also not keen on. Everyone but me has had the flu (man [
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Special Needs Jungle · 2W ago

SEN Green Paper: Ministerial “Detailed response” expected next week

So, next week government ministers will set out their detailed response and reform timetable as their next steps in the SEN Green Paper. They’ve been saying it’s ‘imminent’ since February, so we’ll see what they’ve come up with. Ministers say they’ve committed to making all the necessary legal chang
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Special Needs Jungle · 2W ago

Home educating a child with special needs

Many parents who have children with special needs seriously consider home educating their child. It throws us lots of issues – especially if they are statemented. Today. home education expert, Fiona Nicholson, who has given evidence to government committees on the subject of elective home education,
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Special Needs Jungle · 2W ago

Special Needs Jungle – a FINALIST in the BritMums Blogging Awards!

Just a quick one – to say THANK YOU to everyone who voted for Special Needs Jungle in the UK BritMums Brilliance in Blogging Awards 2012. It’s just been announced that the blog is a FINALIST in the Change category – the only one I entered. The awards are announced at a BritMums Live! on [...]
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