School Struggles. Online training for understanding Autism,ADHD & Dyslexia

07/10/2022

Hi
We have finally launched our lottery. The proceeds from the lottery will go towards funding school age children in Coventry and Warwickshire to receive assessments if they are struggling in education. If schools do not have the funding, we will step in and help. This can only be done by your support. £1 a ticket.
Thank You
Sarah Jane McGarry
https://www.givinglottery.org.uk/support/the-autism-and-adhd-advocates-cic

19/09/2022

We will aim to give people a better understanding of autism, ADHD and Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD).

This will be gained through 1-1 appointments, weekly podcasts about different topics of autism, adhd and SpLD and Group sessions.

Parents, carers, children, teachers etc can access the support and advice service by booking an appointment for a 1-1 or a group session.

A diagnosis is not needed to receive support and advice from this service.

Coventry & Warwickshire Area.
We will donate monies to fund school age children living in Coventry to receive an assessment for SpLD, Autism or ADHD if they are struggling within education, academically or behavioral.

We will hold a weekly lottery to raise funds for school age children who need assessments for Autism, Adhd or SpLD.

Please Email enquiries@autismadhdadvocates.org for further information.

31/08/2022

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/everyday-neurodiversity/202108/are-we-giving-autistic-children-ptsd-school?fbclid=IwAR20k8NE7ghO6pn277-MSxtOaVaxqiUMsOhKEDWCIdLS4CtzAkLowEBRAig

When we don't understand autistic kids we create a toxic environment for them.

28/08/2022

Please sign this petition.

https://chng.it/tLWQz4LTFy

Stop the Schools Bill - don't prosecute when children can't, not won't go to school!

14/08/2022

“ADHD is really very strongly genetic, so it’s extremely common for parents to say, ‘I was just like this as a kid,’ or, ‘I see him. I see myself in him.’ ” says William Stixrud, founder of the Stixrud Group.

03/07/2022

Very interesting read about the education system

https://gen.medium.com/the-insane-structure-of-high-school-762fea58fe62

I have 20 new students entering my classroom every hour. The frenzied pace is failing everyone.

23/06/2022

22/06/2022

How cruel you have to earn points to go to the prom 😡😡😡

https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/22/dad-fuming-after-spending-500-on-school-prom-daughter-was-banned-from-16871652/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwAR2H3FVx0xqJxQJLeuS6KJcQPHeqGPg3U41WEib5zohRt9E5F8eqP_16TnY&fs=e&s=cl

Children have to earn enough points to go to the prom but lose marks for 'negative behaviour incidents'.

14/06/2022

Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school. She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons. Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing. Gillian does not know how to sit and cannot be attentive.

When she comes home, her mother punishes her too. So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers from them at home.

One day, Gillian's mother is called to school. The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news, takes her hand and goes to the interview room. The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder. Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.

During the interview an old teacher arrives who knows the little girl. He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues, to follow him into an adjoining room from where she can still be seen. As he leaves, he tells Gillian that they will be back soon and turns on an old radio with music.

As the girl is alone in the room, she immediately gets up and begins to move up and down chasing the music in the air with her feet and her heart. The teacher smiles as the colleagues and the mother look at him between confusion and compassion, as is often done with the old. So he says:

"See? Gillian is not sick, Gillian is a dancer!"

He recommends that her mother take her to a dance class and that her colleagues make her dance from time to time. She attends her first lesson and when she gets home she tells her mother:

"Everyone is like me, no one can sit there!"

In 1981, after a career as a dancer, opening her own dance academy and receiving international recognition for her art, Gillian Lynne became the choreographer of the musical "Cats."

Hopefully all “different” children find adults capable of welcoming them for who they are and not for what they lack.

Long live the differences, the little black sheep and the misunderstood. They are the ones who create beauty in this world.

08/06/2022

29/05/2022

*************************WE NEED YOU************************
We are looking for people with knowledge and understanding of Autism, ADHD and SpLD to take part in weekly talk time. Please message or email for more details.

20/04/2022

What is Autism?
Link for tonight.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82392823503?pwd=cktFUHRTM3FvR2Z5WE9pQm9NbGd1UT09

07/04/2022

Have you had a diagnosis of ADHD or Autism and found that you are struggling to understand all the information. Or struggling to understand your child's behaviors. Then Join us every Wednesday on Zoom. 10.30-12pm Tickets are free from Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/question-time-with-autismadhd-advocate-tickets-316728382117

Question Time with Autism/ADHD Advocates

30/03/2022

What are some of the greatest examples of presence of mind?

Teacher addresses a student and asks: “How many kidneys do we have?"

“Four!", The student responds.

“Four? Haha,” The teacher was one of those who took pleasure in picking on his students' mistakes and demoralizing them.

“Bring a bundle of grass, because we have an ass in the room," the teacher orders a front bencher.

“And for me a coffee!”, the student added.

The teacher was furious and expelled the student from the room.

The student was, by the way, the humorist Aparicio Torelly Aporelly (1895-1971), better known as the "Baron de Itararé".

On his way out of the classroom, the student still had the audacity to correct the furious teacher:

"You asked me how many kidneys ‘we have’. We have four: two of mine and two of yours. ‘We have’ is an expression used for the plural. Enjoy the grass.”

Life demands much more understanding than knowledge. Sometimes people, because they have a little more knowledge or ‘believe’ that they have it, feel they have the right to underestimate others.