Blog posts listing

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DFN - Securing Good Transitions: Part 1

Claire Cookson - CEO, DFN Foundation

UK Association for Accessible Formats

UKAAF - If a person cannot access information, what has to change?

Roger Firman and Susan Day of UKAAF give some insight into accessibility for school-professionals regarding blind and partially sighted students in education.

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Square Peg - Please can we banish the term ‘school refusal’?

Written by Fran Morgan from Square Peg.

Leading Learning for Special Education Needs and Disability, Community interest Company

LLSENDCiC - Working with specialists

The third blog in a series written by Katie Hickin

Confidence through competence

Real Training - How to carry out a SEND Review using the latest online training

Whole School SEND's Online SEND Reviewer Training, powered by Real Training

Leading Learning for Special Education Needs and Disability, Community interest Company

LLSENDCiC - SENCo and practitioner wellbeing

The second in a series of three blogs written by Katie Hickin

Ask. Answer. Learn.

Teacher Tapp - The Parent Paradox: SEND Edition

Written by Karen Wespieser, COO of Parent Ping and Teacher Tapp.

Leading Learning for Special Education Needs and Disability, Community interest Company

LLSENDCiC - The role of the SENCO in leading CPD

The first in a series of three blogs written by Katie Hickin

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Karen Wespieser - Ofsted Post-16 Review

Written by Karen Wespieser, educational researcher and COO of Teacher Tapp and Parent Ping.

Leading Learning for Special Education Needs and Disability, Community interest Company

LLSENDCiC - SENCOs: Working in partnership with families

Written by Katie Hickin

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Equals - Thoughts on Curriculum

Thoughts on Curriculum - for pupils and students with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), severe learning difficulties (SLD) and/or SLD/ASC
Peter Imray

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NDTi & ASDAN - Preparing for Adulthood- developing a new curriculum for young people with SEND

Written by Julie Pointer – National Development Team for Inclusion and Simon Lawrence ASDAN.

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ABA - All Together: A digital approach to reducing bullying of pupils with SEND

Written by the Anti-Bullying Alliance

National Development Team for Inclusion

NDTi - Courageous leadership in difficult times

Written by Julie Pointer, Children and young people lead, National Development Team for Inclusion

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TSC - The Engagement Model

Written by Alison Ley

UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum

UKABIF - Acquired brain injury: A guide for schools

Dr Emily Bennett, Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Dr Gemma Costello, Educational Psychologist National ABI in Learning in Education Forum (N-ABLES)

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I CAN - Does ‘hard to reach’ mean ‘hard to evaluate’?

Learning from evaluating a programme for parents of two-year-old children at risk of SLCN.

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NNPCF - Real Co-production with Parent Carers

Written by The National Network of Parent Carer Forums

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Dyspraxia Foundation: How teachers can help children with dyspraxia succeed at school.

Dr Sally Payne, Occupational Therapist and Dyspraxia Foundation Trustee

Discover. Nurture. Succeed

Potential Plus UK - Best Practice in Provision for Dual or Multiple Exceptional (DME) Learners

In her 2015 book, Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational Needs, Professor Diane Montgomery noted that ‘if we meet the needs of pupils with DME then the school experience and the achievement of all children will be raised’.