by Dr Anna Hutchinson, clinical psychologist If your child or young person has a mental health difficulty or is neurodivergent (or both), parents know only too well how hard it …
I often get asked lots of questions by parents looking for support for their children. Naturally, parents are keen to find out who I am and what I can do …
With Clare Ward, Speech and Language Therapist/ CBT Practitioner, and James Galpin, Developmental Psychologist *This post is in partnership with Jessica Kingsley Publishing Uncertainty is something we have all had …
The speech therapy process is very much a collaborative one. Even if your child is lucky enough to get regular speech therapy sessions, that’s still only half-an-hour or an hour …
I always like to try and talk to my son about what he has done at school that day. His normal response is “things and stuff”, unless something very specific …
Elizabeth and I were recently contacted by Jessica Kingsley publishers, asking us to review a new book. When I saw that the subject of the book was Lego and language …
We’ve run a couple of posts on SNJ from Lorraine Senior about Reflexology for children with special needs. They were really appreciated by readers so I’m delighted to be able to bring …
I decided to write about this as a result of an article I posted on SNJ’s social media a while back about autism and empathy. It had such a great response …
I have very fond memories of spending hours in our small sunny back garden as a child. Often the games would involved digging patches of dirt, playing hide and seek …
I’ve long had an interest in the use of alternative therapies and took Youngest to see a Bowen Therapist when he was just six weeks old and his clicky hip …
Christina Lydon is one of those gems that you stumble across on social media, someone doing something interesting, worthwhile and more importantly, changing the lives of children with SEN. She is …
When you are concerned about your child’s development, it can be worrying and difficult to know where to go for support. I often have conversations with people who are unsure …
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 …
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 …
A couple of weeks ago I featured an article about Floortime therapy for autism. See the post here. We ran a competition for a free ticket and the winner is: Sarah …
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 …
