The SEN bill’s future is in the hands of.. well, what a welcome surprise!
The last week has been really hectic with my boys going back to school and a huge workload, but I’ve just been prompted by a blog comment to write about just …
Category: special needs
Apologies – and it’s not even Friday 13th
Apologies to my email subscribers about the unfinished nature of their last post – it was, in fact, beautifully finished, with a hand crafted image – my weekly round up. …
KFC dish out work placements to ‘shunned’ youngsters
News today of a great initiative to help young people who are socially disadvantaged to gain valuable work experience and find a potential new career path. The UK’s largest children’s …
Read SEN & Disability News (Quick before they ban disability)
The spotlight is firmly on disability in the media at the moment, with the Paralympics underway, not to mention the ATOS games as disability rights protestors demonstrate against the government’s …
What’s your experience of CAMHS?
Many of our children have to be referred to CAMHS – The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service – to help manage their behavioural difficulties or perhaps if they are …
August’s top bank holiday SEND stories
After a two week break, the Special Needs Jungle weekly curation of the best of special needs posts is BACK! I’ve tried to include stories I tweeted while I was …
Does child protection protect children?
This is a reblog of a great post from Debs at ChaosinKent. Debs is one of my personal heroines. She has three kids with special needs and is just an …
Advice for SENCos – the parents’ perspective from Hayley Goleniowski
This post originally appeared on the DownSideUp blog of Hayley Goleniowski, who writes about life with her beautiful daughter, natty, who has Down’s Syndrome. I thought it was such a great …
Volunteering: The best way to spend your summer
Tania says: We’re heading off for Italy this weekend and because both kids are autistic, we’ve always rented a villa with a pool and taken their Grandma and Nonno along …
Inspired: Youngest meets Dr Temple Grandin.
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 …
dear you
I just read this blog post and thought, even though we’re mums, not ‘moms’ that the sentiment is just the same. Hope you enjoy it!
Jessica Cox: Celebrating Determination
Hope you’re all enjoying the Jubilee holiday. This blog often talks about the challenges faced by our SEN & disabled children and the struggles by parents to get them the help they …
High Functioning Autism vs Aspergers: The emotions of labels.
I’ve just read this really insightful blog by Violet’s Diary and wanted to share it with you.
The benefits of ‘Floortime’ for autism – and win tickets to a Floortime workshop!
An US company that offers a unique therapy to help parents and professionals communicate better with children with autism/special needs, is offering London-based workshops in the the technique. Floortime is …
Special Needs Jungle – a FINALIST in the BritMums Blogging Awards!
Just a quick one – to say THANK YOU to everyone who voted for Special Needs Jungle in the UK BritMums Brilliance in Blogging Awards 2012. It’s just been announced …
Eye-catching special needs news & autism articles from this week
Another week of rain and economic gloom. Note to self, stop listening to the Radio 4 Today programme, it’s starting your day off ALL wrong. Still there is some good …
If ‘child centred’ help is a no-brainer, why isn’t it happening?
One thing that’s become very familiar in the last few years, both personally and from reading your comments and emails, is how outragously hard it is to get the right …
My pick of the posts about special needs this week
I’ve come across lots of interesting stories this week so here’s my list of the cream of the crop of news, blogs and, of course the week’s stories from Special …
Sensory needs met with a Body Sox
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 …
Cracking special needs stories for the Easter weekend
Happy Easter! Why not spend a few minutes this long weekend to catch up on some of the past week’s special needs and disability stories? Here’s my pick: Special Needs …