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35. How the ‘proposed’ SEND reforms would have made no difference to my child.
...how she is still recovering from the damage of mainstream education and how trying to emerge from those struggles is pretty tough
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Aphantasia and the Art of Seeing Differently
A reminder of how brilliant Neurodivergent Minds are
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As I watch my child struggle…
This week the Health Secretary in the UK has launched a review into the perceived over diagnosis of neuro developmental conditions and the suggested…
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This is what the system doesn't see
[I’m a school leader, responsible for education and opportunity for many young people.
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Autistic kids and music festivals: Here’s what I learnt from our experience….
We went to a music festival as a family.
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On still being here, still being in battle mode, and freeing my writer's brain from oppressive thought loops....
It's been an intense Spring/Summer for us.
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For you (My daughters, family members and all the other ‘children’ who didn't quite fit in)
[The last few years of my life, since discovering my daughters’ neurodivergence, have been a period of personal enlightenment.
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Time to Wave the White Flag
My daughter, Patti (AuDHD) has only attended her big mainstream secondary school on a few occasions in the past 14 months.
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Rituals, more rituals than we need. And nameless days.
[This year, our ND family made a cautious return to a more regular style Christmas following a couple of years where we switched the routines up a bit.
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Gold Star Student
To my fierce and persistent daughter, who showed everyone what happens if you are allowed to swim upstream
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We Are Stuck (But Holding Onto Hope)
It's been over a year since Patti properly went to school.
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A Diagnosis For Me Too?
The autistic writer, Pete Wharmby asserts in his book, ‘Untypical’ that once a child receives an autism diagnosis that their parents should…
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I'm Louise. Parent, Educator and Autism Advocate. Navigating Education's Neuro Frontier
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