Support for SEND

20/11/2025

18/11/2025

18/11/2025

I have been supporting a parent today, who's child cannot attend school because several staff members hold similar abelist opinions about neurodivergence!
Richard Tice's rhetoric is not only absolutely disgusting, but it is dangerous because it actively promotes abelism and discrimination, across society!
How this man sleeps at night is anybody's guess!

Tice was outlining Reform’s Doge (Department of government efficiency) unit’s progress

16/11/2025

Linking to my previous post, if anybody else feels strongly about delays in SEND education provision, here's an ongoing petition to commission an independent inquiry.

Many children with SEND are being failed. Some families can wait months or even years for support, leaving children without the education they are legally entitled to and causing long-term harm.

16/11/2025

When a parent, last week, relayed to me the way that she and her son have been treated over the last five years, I must've used the phrase, 'You couldn't even write this' at least three times.
It made my own family('s experience) seem lucky, in comparison - and that's something I never thought I would say!

One day, though, stories such as this will come to the forefront, and another national scandal will unfold.

13/11/2025

This looks great!

Learn how to create a digital social story on any device, to help your child understand new situations and how the world around them works.

13/11/2025

11/11/2025

Everybody is different.

The reason that I persued diagnostic assessment for my children is because I was constantly swinging on a pendulum between self-doubt, parenting wise, and conscious reasoning that 'typical' parenting strategies weren't working for my family.

The diagnostic assessment stopped that pendulum, knocked self-doubt on its head and, from then on, allowed me to follow only [the] conscious reasoning, to the benefit of my family.

Some parents and carers - my husband included (which is why I used 'I' - although he did fully support my request to assess) - do not feel the need to persue diagnostic assessment for their children. They are content, and confident, to meet need, and I totally respect and admire that.

However, I needed to know as a parent, to be a more confident parent, and I have every faith that my children understand this and do not see themselves as 'labelled,' as I so frequently read.

08/11/2025

Tonight, I am spending a night away from my family and - in a good way - nobody is particularly bothered.

Not too long ago, this just would not have been possible.

Anxiety (not my own) would have prevented this.

However, deviations from societal norms and expectations have changed my family's life for the better.

Life's not perfect (who's is?), but better meeting needs means anxiety has lessened, and life is opening up a little.

06/11/2025

Along similar lines, supporting a parent in a meeting today, I met a very understanding, supportive and proactive SENCo. A real credit to the school!
Sometimes it's easy to forget (when times are challenging) that there are many wonderful practitioners out there!

06/11/2025

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