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Category: <span>Personal Posts</span>
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Volunteering: The best way to spend your summer
Columnists, Personal Posts, Rare Disease, SEN & Disability Charities, SEND Resources, special needs, Top Picks, Treatment & Therapy

Volunteering: The best way to spend your summer

By Robert Pleticha: RareConnect August 1, 2012 February 27, 2015

Tania says: We’re heading off for Italy this weekend and because both boys have special needs, we’ve always rented a villa with a pool and taken their Grandma and Nonno …

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Finally: summer, special needs stories and a teenage birthday
Personal Posts, SEN News Story Round Up

Finally: summer, special needs stories and a teenage birthday

By Tania Tirraoro July 20, 2012 May 15, 2020

Ah, so school’s out for pretty much everyone from today..just in time for the summer sunshine to finally show itself.  Although my boys are enjoying the end of their second …

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Inspired: Youngest  meets Dr Temple Grandin.
Autism, Personal Posts, special needs

Inspired: Youngest meets Dr Temple Grandin.

By Tania Tirraoro June 19, 2012 May 15, 2020

Last night we had the privilege of going to see Dr Temple Grandin, the autistic woman famous for inventing humane animal handling systems. Dr Grandin is also a renowned expert …

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SEN – The Next Steps – My views & Meridian Tonight feature
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SEN – The Next Steps – My views & Meridian Tonight feature

By Tania Tirraoro May 15, 2012 May 15, 2020

So, there’s been much furore today about the headlines for proposals that  450,000 children be ‘struck off’ the SEN register. This is a bit of a stupid headline, to say …

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Special Needs Jungle in the Daily Telegraph. What I really think
Disability Financial Help, It's about the school, parenting, Personal Posts, SEN Reforms, Statementing

Special Needs Jungle in the Daily Telegraph. What I really think

By Tania Tirraoro May 12, 2012 September 29, 2013

There’s a story about SEN in the Daily Telegraph today “Can 20 per cent of schoolchildren really have special needs?” by Peter Stanford. It’s already attracted lots of comments, some …

Read more"Special Needs Jungle in the Daily Telegraph. What I really think"
Sensory needs met with a Body Sox
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Sensory needs met with a Body Sox

By Tania Tirraoro April 19, 2012 May 15, 2020

Many children with special needs have sensory issues, including my two. Their school used Body Sox which Youngest absolutely loves. He asked me to source one for him and here …

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Why I turned my back on my TV news career
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Why I turned my back on my TV news career

By Tania Tirraoro April 12, 2012 September 29, 2013

Recently I appeared in Woman magazine – a small section in a feature entitled, “Meet the regret-me-nots” My piece was headlined, “I regretted becoming a full-time mum”, which isn’t strictly …

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Conversations with an Aspie teen
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Conversations with an Aspie teen

By Tania Tirraoro March 28, 2012 September 4, 2013

When your Asperger’s son is deep in adolescence, it’s sometimes hard to tell whether their behaviour and conversation is more autistic or teenager. Two examples below from (extremely intelligent) Son1: …

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Teachers didn’t understand my bright sons’ ASD, says Tania Tirraoro (SEN Magazine)

By Tania Tirraoro January 9, 2012 May 24, 2014

I’ve just been sent a pdf of my article that was in the last issue of SEN Magazine. The magazine is a great read – lots of useful ideas for …

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Ritalin, talking therapies and what I think our kids really need…

By Tania Tirraoro October 26, 2011 June 29, 2015

The Health Minister, Simon Burns has said that the chief medical officer and the NHS medical director are planning to write to clinicians to remind them of the full range of …

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The sidelong glances that can cause anguish
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The sidelong glances that can cause anguish

By Tania Tirraoro October 5, 2011 January 25, 2015

One of the most difficult things to cope with when your child has a ‘hidden’ disability that affects their behaviour or social communication ability, is the attitude of other people, …

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A Good Image for Asperger Syndrome
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A Good Image for Asperger Syndrome

By Tania Tirraoro November 6, 2010 September 29, 2013

I’m about to blow my own trumpet, so look away now if  you’re not into hearing people’s good news… I’ve just published my novel, This Last Summer, on Amazon Kindle …

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Books I recommend for Special Needs
Autism, parenting, Personal Posts, special needs

Books I recommend for Special Needs

By Tania Tirraoro July 3, 2009 September 29, 2013

I have quite a collection of books about special needs and parenting and thought I would share some recommendations with you. I usually buy mine from amazon.co.uk, so I’ll link …

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Journey’s End for our Statement – And a Brighter Future.
Autism, Disability Financial Help, It's about the school, Personal Posts, special needs, Statements of SEN, Surrey County Council

Journey’s End for our Statement – And a Brighter Future.

By Tania Tirraoro July 1, 2009 October 14, 2013

Just to update the post about my son getting the statement of Special Needs, we’ve just heard that the LEA has agreed to fund him at his independent special school. …

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Autism, It's about the school, MHS, parenting, Personal Posts, special needs

An Actor’s Life For Him.

By Tania Tirraoro June 19, 2009 November 27, 2014

My 11 year old has just had his first co-starring role in a school play. He’s currently playing Ratty in a production of ‘Wind in the Willows’ at More House …

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Autism, It's about the school, Personal Posts, special needs, Statementing, Statements of SEN

Give ASD children the school provision they need

By Tania Tirraoro June 13, 2009 September 29, 2013

The Times today (Saturday 13 June 2009) has an article about children with special needs being excluded from school. It points to a recent survey showing that 55 percent of …

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Autism, It's about the school, parenting, Personal Posts, special needs

Child-Free.. as free as the wind blows..

By Tania Tirraoro June 9, 2009 March 22, 2021

This morning, without so much as a backwards glance, both our autistic children climbed on board a coach with their classmates and set off for their annual trip to PGL. …

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See my other blog – Not As Advertised
parenting, Personal Posts

See my other blog – Not As Advertised

By Tania Tirraoro June 6, 2009 September 29, 2013

I’ve decided to start a second blog. I know, that’s just greedy but there are plenty of them to go round if you want your own. It’s called “Not As …

Read more"See my other blog – Not As Advertised"
Autism, Disability Financial Help, Meridian Television, Personal Posts, special needs, Statements of SEN

Long ago..when I was somebody

By Tania Tirraoro June 1, 2009 September 29, 2013

Long, long ago, before I was ‘Special Needs Mum’, I had a great career as a television journalist and news reader. I loved it – the job, the lifestyle, the …

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Disability Financial Help, MHS, Personal Posts, special needs

Sports Day at More House School

By Tania Tirraoro May 22, 2009 May 15, 2020

We’ve just come home from Sports Day. This always used to be a day of tears, upset and general not wanting to go to school. That is, until they started …

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