The Mosaic Practice

08/05/2025

Feeling executive! Ready to make our next hire… Katie, Hannah, Ruth, Gemma, Colette, Natalie…. You??
Practice Administrator interviews today and next week.

01/01/2025

Ready for what 2025 has to bring, whilst we prepare to reach a wider number of families we can help through our LEA referrals and direct contacts with families. Always striving for better for the families we work with.

17/04/2023

We are hiring! The Mosaic Practice is a complex needs specialist centre based in Hertfordshire and covering surrounding areas. We have a small team of occupational therapy and speech therapy, and we need to grow our team to meet the demand of a rapidly growing waiting list! We offer incredibly flexible working arrangements, with the security of a contract and monthly salary, full admin support, small specialist caseload, opportunities to develop specific skills in AAC, ASD and Complex needs.
If you want the flexibility of private work, but the security of a contract, this could be the job for you!
Full induction, training, appraisal and development opportunities available.
Do get in touch for more info, or follow the links below to see job descriptions and positions available.
email: katie@themosaicpractice.com
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mosaic-practice-ltd/
website jobs: http://themosaicpractice.com/join-us/
Indeed: https://uk.indeed.com/cmp/The-Mosaic-Practice?from=mobviewjob&tk=1gu845ep9k991800&fromjk=8e1d002ac6df9d29&attributionid=mobvjcmpwebsite

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22/10/2022

Hundreds of people with hard-to-treat epilepsy will benefit from the innovative treatment.

05/10/2022

📣🎉We are officially a multidisciplinary practice! Last week we welcomed our first Occupational Therapist Ruth to our team! Watch this space for more about how she works with our families…

08/09/2022

At the Mosaic Practice we mourn the loss of HRH Elizabeth II. She was the patron of several charities who provide support to the families we work with. A lifetime of grace, service and humility. She will be missed.

08/09/2022

At the Mosaic Practice we mourn the loss of HRH Elizabeth II. She was the patron of several charities who provide support to the families we work with. A lifetime of grace, service and humility. She will be missed.

22/08/2022

NOW BOOKED…. at Burnham on sea following a cancellation . .. 3 nights from Friday September 2nd 2022, price was £225,now £200, plus refundable £75 accidental damage bond. Please message if you would like to book.

15/08/2022

Hi everyone! My first research study went live today - a survey for parents of children and young people with Down syndrome in the UK about communication. Find out more below -

https://dundee.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/caregiver-survey

My name is Elaine Scougal and I am a postgraduate research student at The University of Dundee. I am also a mother of two children with Down syndrome. My research explores the communication experiences and methods of children and young people with Down syndrome.

I am currently seeking the views and experiences of parents/ carers about communication via an online survey. This will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes and can be accessed via computer/ tablet/ smartphone.

To participate, you must be age 18+ and the parent/ carer of a child who…

- has a diagnosis of Down syndrome.
- is between 3 and 18 years of age (inclusive)
- is attending preschool/ school
- is living in the UK.

If you would like to participate, please click the following link –

https://dundee.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/caregiver-survey

If you have any questions about participation or if you encounter any technical difficulties/ queries related to the survey, please contact me via e.scougal@dundee.ac.uk

This research has been approved by the ethics committee of the School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee.

20/07/2022

The first drug specifically to help treat Rett syndrome has been submitted to the FDA for approval.

The company will be looking to get this in Europe too so watch this space!

Read the company’s letter to the Rett community here
https://www.rettsyndrome.org/wp-content/uploads/Rett-Community-Letter-Updated_FINAL_7_18_22.pdf

30/06/2022

These are fabulous for a quick getaway and mean you will know everything you really need is in place to make your accessible holiday fantastic!

23/06/2022

To those who see, know, or love parents of kids with disabilities, there's something us parents want you to know: we are always trying.

A friend of mine messaged me recently about the extreme behaviors her child with an intellectual disability was displaying. Something, I’m familiar with. But she followed it up by saying, “My family thinks I don’t discipline him enough. They don’t get it.”

She’s right. They don’t. They can’t.

So, let me help you try to understand our families just a little bit better.

The behaviors are something many of us parents are constantly managing. We’ve gone to classes, we’ve read books, we’ve tried strategies, stopped those strategies, and started them again, stopped again, found a new method and…repeat.

Our kid’s behaviors also come in waves. My son went into a downward trend after Christmas that lasted through February. Then one day it faded.

Nothing we did, to my knowledge, brought him out of it. We managed symptoms but did not provide a cure.

For now, this is part of his life. And we are trying. My friend is trying. We are all trying.

Sometimes our trying looks like taking a more hands-off approach and sometimes it’s more hands-on. Sometimes it looks similar to how we parent our typically developing children, and sometimes it looks starkly different.

We understand our kid’s communication issues are frustrating to them. They respond in ways that don’t make sense to the outside world, or sometimes even to us. But they are trying, too.

Living in a world not accessible to them takes more effort. Parenting children in a world not accessible to them often takes more effort.

So, when you think we should be doing more to intervene, know that our current way of dealing might be doing less. If you think we are being too harsh, maybe our kids are more capable of understanding than you realize.

The bottom line is we are parenting disabled children in a world that is not accommodating to them.

We are trying to figure out how to best accommodate them.

Sometimes, they are exhausted. Sometimes we are, too.

We want the world to have high expectations of our kids, while also realizing that they need more support and grace in the process.

We try to remember these things ourselves. And it is a constant balancing act.

We know you can’t know our lives. But know this: we are always trying. Get my free ebook, “5 Spiritual Comforts for Parents of Kids with Disabilities”:
https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5df181b3154bd20026a1aeaa