When your family includes a member with special needs or disabilities, there is so little time for you, the parent carer. Almost none. Of course, parenting all young children can …
[Tania’s note: We are welcoming Hayley from today as an SNJ co-writer as well as a columnist and we hope all our columnists will be starting to contribute through the …
What is it that is so interesting about children? It seems a simple question. Parents know their own children well – or so they think. Then the child does something …
Hannah Postgate gave up her career to care for her daughter, Rosy who has special needs. When she wanted to try to find some part-time work, it was so difficult …
Columnist Hayley Goleniowska writes: Last month, in my first column for Special Needs Jungle we explored the preconceptions that strangers have about our children, how their swift judgements make us …
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 …
Today marks the first column from Angela Kelly one of our four new columnists. The parent of two special needs sons and a trainee psychologist as well, Angela is Tania’s ‘co’ …
Tania writes: Yesterday it was my birthday and I was very pleased to receive some wave-making hair tongs to bring a spot of variety to my poker-straight locks. I gave …
Tania writes: “Catch them being good” is the oft-repeated advice to help encourage positive behaviour in children. And it’s good advice. But when your child has a behavioural disorder such …
Tania writes: I was recently lucky enough to attend a conference given by both the world-renowned expert in Asperger Syndrome, Dr Tony Attwood and Dr Carol Gray, the inventor of …
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 …
Wowzer! Special Needs Jungle has been named in the The Times (yes the UK national newspaper) as one of its “Top 50 Websites To Make You Smarter”. How amazing is that? …
One of my fellow special needs mums, whom I met over Twitter, Emma Murphy, is spearheading a campaign highlighting the emerging dangers of taking the Epilepsy drug Sodium Valproate (Epilim) …
My colleagues over at NetBuddy have an article in The Guardian about Storytelling week and how to engage your children, especially those with special needs, in the wonder of a …
My good friend Angela, who is my ‘co’ in co-chair at Family Voice Surrey, always has an air of unflappability. I’m not quite sure how she does it. As well …
Mental health in adolescents with or without special needs is a growing concern and a particular interest of mine. I found an article on MedPage Today about a survey of …
Yesterday, I took the boys shopping to Basingstoke. As I’m not currently able to walk far, I sat in Starbucks armed with my iPad to do some work, while they …
Happy New Year and I hope you all had a great Christmas without too much stress! Ours was relatively quiet, with both Son1 and Son2 away skiing with their special …
Have a great Christmas from Tania, Son1 & Son2.. and Leo the Labradoodle! See you in 2013.
Today is the International Day for Persons With Disabilities, which will be marked worldwide. It’s also Son1’s 15th birthday and I would like, today, to offer a message of hope …
