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Category: <span>Health</span>
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It’s not ADHD, it’s Sluggish Cognitive Tempo
ADD/ADHD, Autism, SEND & Health Research, SEND Resources, Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

It’s not ADHD, it’s Sluggish Cognitive Tempo

By Tania Tirraoro January 30, 2014 February 17, 2014

Have you heard of “Sluggish Cognitive Tempo” (SCT)?  It’s apparently regarded by psychiatric professionals as a subtype of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Until now, that is. Medscape has reported  some research …

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The Disability Abortion Lie – when choice seems like no choice
Campaigns, Columnists, Disability, Downs Syndrome, Health

The Disability Abortion Lie – when choice seems like no choice

By Hayley Goleniowska January 24, 2014 April 8, 2016

It’s easy to assume that the moral dilemma of whether to abort your unborn baby that you’ve learned has a disability, is confined to a shouty debate between pro-choicers on …

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How to communicate successfully with children with unclear speech
Columnists, speech & language

How to communicate successfully with children with unclear speech

By Elizabeth Gunner SpeechBlogUK January 17, 2014 January 17, 2014

Both Helen and I specialise in working with children with phonological or speech sound production difficulties.  According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), 8-9% of …

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How growing up with disability can lead to a life of compassion
Columnists, Rare Disease, special needs

How growing up with disability can lead to a life of compassion

By Robert Pleticha: RareConnect December 13, 2013 May 26, 2015

We often wonder at SNJ, as we all must, how our children with chronic illness, rare conditions or additional needs will cope when they are adults. How will their difficulties …

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Join us & back Jane’s campaign to improve legal rights in SEN Bill
Campaigns, Health, SEN Reforms, special needs

Join us & back Jane’s campaign to improve legal rights in SEN Bill

By Tania Tirraoro December 10, 2013 May 9, 2014

  “We define ourselves as a society by the priorities we choose” Jane Raca Earlier this year, disabled rights campaigner, Jane Raca and I were speakers on the same panel regarding …

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Learning to spot speech & language problems from our newest SNJ Columnists
Columnists, special needs, speech & language

Learning to spot speech & language problems from our newest SNJ Columnists

By Special Needs Jungle November 22, 2013 November 22, 2013

Today it’s our pleasure to welcome the two lovely ladies, Helen & Elizabeth from SpeechBlogUK as our latest columnists. As the blog name implies, they are both that endangered species, the …

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World Diabetes Day: How Type 1 affects children
diabetes, Health, SEND Politics, SEND Resources, special needs

World Diabetes Day: How Type 1 affects children

By Special Needs Jungle November 14, 2013 May 9, 2014

Today marks World Diabetes Day and we are delighted to have a guest article by Fiona Faure from The Children With Diabetes Advocacy Group. Both of  Fiona’s children have type 1 …

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How to help manage your children’s pain
Health, Medical News, Really useful site, SEND Resources, special needs

How to help manage your children’s pain

By Tania Tirraoro October 16, 2013 November 9, 2014

Following on from Monday’s post, when I briefly talked about Son2 having Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and suffering from pain, there is help at hand for parents when their child is in …

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Warrior to worrier: When an SEN mum drops the ball
Health, mumsnet, Personal Posts, special needs

Warrior to worrier: When an SEN mum drops the ball

By Tania Tirraoro October 14, 2013 May 15, 2020

I was supposed to write a post today about an aspect of the SEN reforms, but as I haven’t managed to read the document published about it yet, that would …

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Exposing quotes that reinforce Down’s syndrome myths: The Truth
Columnists, Disability, Health, parenting

Exposing quotes that reinforce Down’s syndrome myths: The Truth

By Hayley Goleniowska October 9, 2013 June 29, 2015

And now for a bit of mutual admiration as we introduce our third new columnist. We love the DownsSideUp blog by Hayley Goleniowski, and when we were thinking about who …

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Why online help is vital for people living with a rare disease you can only smell
Columnists, Rare Disease, Really useful site, SEND Resources, special needs

Why online help is vital for people living with a rare disease you can only smell

By Robert Pleticha: RareConnect September 27, 2013 June 26, 2016

We hear a lot about “invisible illness” and how young people with autism are judged or stared at because of their behavior. But what if your teenager’s illness meant they …

Read more"Why online help is vital for people living with a rare disease you can only smell"
NICE guidelines for treatment of autism in children and young people published
Autism, Health, Medical News, special needs

NICE guidelines for treatment of autism in children and young people published

By Tania Tirraoro September 7, 2013 May 9, 2014

NICE, The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, has today published new guidelines for the treatment of autism in children and young people. “Autism – the management and support of …

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Research links gluten sensitivity to autism
Autism, Health

Research links gluten sensitivity to autism

By Tania Tirraoro July 6, 2013 September 29, 2013

This report is from Medscape Today and is about a study in PL0S One. Links at the bottom. A subset of children with autism have increased immune reactivity to gluten, …

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Mindfull: A new online mental health service for teens
CAMHS, Health, Mental Health

Mindfull: A new online mental health service for teens

By Tania Tirraoro July 5, 2013 May 9, 2014

Tania writes… A new online service for adolescents with mental health problems is being launched today (Friday 5th July 2013). The service at mindfull.org is aimed at young people aged 11 to …

Read more"Mindfull: A new online mental health service for teens"
carers, Columnists, Guest Posts, Health

Carer’s Week: My son is a young carer

By Tania Tirraoro June 12, 2013 June 29, 2015

It’s Carer’s Week, organised and supported by quite a few charities in the UK Carers provide unpaid care by looking after an ill, frail or disabled family member, friend or …

Read more"Carer’s Week: My son is a young carer"
Is this ASD research a potential game-changer?
Autism, Treatment & Therapy

Is this ASD research a potential game-changer?

By Tania Tirraoro May 11, 2013 September 29, 2013

There is new research and findings about causes and potential therapies for autism every week, but the following caught my eye in particular. I’ve reproduced a section below and you …

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Making the Disabled Children’s Charter a health priority
Campaigns, Health, SEN & Disability Charities

Making the Disabled Children’s Charter a health priority

By Tania Tirraoro May 9, 2013 September 29, 2013

As you are hopefully aware, the beginning of April saw a massive shake-up in the NHS and the creation of GP-led Clinical Commissioning Groups as well as Health and Wellbeing …

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Our son’s rare disease sparked a search for answers- and support
Campaigns, Health, Rare Disease, Statementing

Our son’s rare disease sparked a search for answers- and support

By Tania Tirraoro April 23, 2013 May 9, 2014

Tania writes: I am often contacted by desperate parents searching for help with finding the special needs solutions for their children. It’s something that Helen never imagined herself having to do. …

Read more"Our son’s rare disease sparked a search for answers- and support"
A personal take on depression: Would you recognise it in your child?
Health, Mental Health, parenting, Personal Posts, Teenagers

A personal take on depression: Would you recognise it in your child?

By Tania Tirraoro April 18, 2013 May 15, 2020

Tania writes It’s Depression Awareness Week, although with the state of the economy and the weather, it wouldn’t surprise me if most of the country was painfully aware of feeling …

Read more"A personal take on depression: Would you recognise it in your child?"
Raising awareness of children’s conditions so rare, they’re undiagnosed.
Disability, Rare Disease, special needs

Raising awareness of children’s conditions so rare, they’re undiagnosed.

By Tania Tirraoro April 13, 2013 September 29, 2013

Tania writes: Recently, when Debs & I went to Westminster, we met Renata Blower, a Mum who blogs about her life as the parent of a child with an undiagnosed …

Read more"Raising awareness of children’s conditions so rare, they’re undiagnosed."

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