It's a bumper round-up of special needs stories and blogs this week - check out what you might have missed:
- Independent: Very interesting perspective: Eton head: Axe GCSEs and leave all exams until pupils are 18
- From Bucks Free Press: Three special needs units to close under Buckinghamshire County Council plans
- The Press Association: McKinnon's ordeal like 'execution'
- Morning Star: Pentagon and Nasa hacker McKinnon's mum tells of his 'nightmare world'
- Not As Advertised blog: Helping our AS teens learn money management by giving them bank cards
- MedicineNet: Antidepressants May Not Raise Suicide Risk in Youth: Study
- Special Needs Jungle: AS Student Josh’s book aims to help parents of Asperger’s kids
- Netbuddy: How do you describe your disabled child?
- NASEN: Academies and funding for SEN specialist services
- The Globe and Mail: Interesting Canadian article about risperidone for children with autism
- Channel 4 News: Can autism be used as hacking defence?
- Special Needs Jungle: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for children with autism
- Special Needs Jungle: Great 5-star review of my #specialneeds statementing book!
- Journal of Neurscience: Gene mutation in autism found to cause hyperconnectivity in brain's hearing center
- The Guardian: New changes to GCSE 'will penalise dyslexic pupils'
- NotAaAdvertised: My AS kids having fun in the snow in Farnham. Even No-fun Mum (ie me) joined in. Take a look!
- The Daily Record: Three mums reveal how they coped when children were diagnosed with autism
- Savette Gazette: Finding Support
- National Autistic Society: Tell us about your experience of Autism & Aspergers
- PLoS Biology: Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males?
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Founder, Co-Director at Special Needs Jungle
Founder of Special Needs Jungle. (She/Her) Parent of two young adults with autism. New grandma. Tania, who is autistic, is a leading SEND advisor, working with the Special Education Consortium, Ofsted, and Whole School SEND. She is also an Advisory Board member of the Royal Holloway, University of London Centre of Gene and Cell Therapy and an Editorial Board member of Springer Nature Gene Therapy journal.
Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media.
Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
Tania is an experienced broadcast and print journalist & author. She also runs a PR, web & social media consultancy, SocialOro Media.
Tania is a rare disease & chronic pain patient advocate with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.
Latest posts by Tania Tirraoro (see all)
- EXCLUSIVE: DfE answers further questions on “targets” for EHCP cuts, removing children from specialist provision and plans to boost SEND in schools - October 2, 2023
- Dame Christine Lenehan: a career advocating for disabled children’s rights - September 27, 2023
- SEND Minister denies the Government is aiming to cut EHCPs by 20% with an emphatic, but unconvincing, explanation - September 22, 2023
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