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 news for me, anyway: I've been asked to take part in a Dragon's Den/Apprentice type thingy for young people. Apparently, I'm an inspirational business expert. When I told Son1, he snorted with derision. Now I'm going to spend the next few weeks feeling like a total fraud. I said yes, of course, because my message to those young people will be to embrace opportunities when they come-  both to help yourself and to help others.

Anyway, happy weekend and here's my pick of the posts and special needs news from the last week.

• Special Needs Jungle: If ‘child centred’ help is a no-brainer, why isn’t it happening?
• Ambitious About Autism: Ambitious about Autism helps create leaflet about mental capacity issues 
• Mumsnet: Q&A with Sharon Hodgson, Shadow Minister for Children and Families on Mumsnet
• Bury Free Press: Autistic teen was ‘failed by system’ > another tragic story and lack of provision
• Kat's Cafe:   ‘I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers’:#AutismPositivity2012
• Carers UK: new figures show cost of families forced to give up work to care reaches £1.3bn
•  The Voice: Voice comments on scholarship scheme for SEN support staff :: Voice The Union
•  The Guardian: Imagine the hell faced by our most vulnerable children, prime minister by Camila Batmanghelidjh
• Special Needs Jungle: Advocates For Children – a FREE SEN legal advocacy charity. If you missed this yesterday, here's the link again 
• DSE International: Landmark research study shows targeted intervention improves reading & language skills of children with Down syndrome 
• Informa Healthcare: Where to with treatment for ADHD?, Current Medical Research and Opinion, Informa Healthcare
• Autism and Empathy: Theory of War
• Thirty Days of Autism: ‘I Wish I Didn’t Have Aspergers’: a letter to my son for AutismPositivity2012  
• Funding Announced For Autism in Waleshttp://ow.ly/aB3dP
• Aspie n the Family: Autism and sleeping from Aspie in the familyow.ly/aAvcY @MumForAutism
• Sky Badger: Free cash for disabled students inc. dyslexics! dld.bz/avmmF Disabled student's allowance.
• FooDee: Autism and restaurants - my first experience with discrimination - FooDee
• Sky Badger: Autism holidays in France.no need to apologise
• BBC News - Bullied 'more prone to self harm'

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Tania Tirraoro

Founder, CEO at Special Needs Jungle

Founder of Special Needs Jungle. Parent of two young adults with autism. Tania is a member of the Whole School SEND Expert Reference Group for SEND Leadership, the Ofsted SEND Inspections Stakeholders Group, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy.
She is also an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. Tania also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media. She is a Rare Disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

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