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Only 4% of disabled children can go to a holiday club...

How do you keep yourself entertained during the summer holidays? Perhaps you've been playing with your friends or you might even have been dropped...

Government failing disabled people, human rights watchdog warns

The UK government has been accused by a human rights watchdog of making "slow progress" in improving the lives of disabled people. The Equality and...

Expert provision for VI

We need to reverse the trend of cutting specialists support roles for visual impairment, writes Caireen Sutherland 

PERSONAL STORIES

Point of view: parent : PDA doesn’t exist, apparently

Tom Browne fights for his children’s education. Let me talk about my son George who is 13 and has autism with the Pathological Demand Avoidance...

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Parenting Children With ADHD

10 Lessons That Medicine Cannot Teach Dr Monastra, is a clinical psychologist who is internationally recognised for his research on the neurophysiological characteristics of children...

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SEN CAREERS

Focus on speech and language therapists

Alison Hodson takes a look at the work of speech and language therapists

Switching to SEN

Rob Grays talks to a teacher who has made the transition from a mainstream to an SEN setting

CPD: is online better?

Most school staff prefer this way of learning, delivered by practitioners who are still actively working in education. How often have you been sent on...

STEM industries need disabled students

Victoria Cornfield, Marketing manager at FPE Seals, discusses the advantages that disabilities can have for work in STEM fields and advocates for more inclusive practices...

Speaking and writing quietly into the abyss: SEND and inclusion training for teachers

Dr Helen Ross discusses the deficiencies in teacher training and considers what can be done about the situation. In recent weeks, my email inbox has...

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