Discovering Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

by Caroline Bailey When I was a little girl I was a little quirky, I remember walking to school with my brother and my mum saying “if you stand on a crack you’ll marry a bat and a rat will come to your wedding” 😂😂 I became so scared of standing on the cracks it …

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February 3 2020

Inclusion Starts with a Smile

by Autism Dad, Adam Murphy  I’m a 47 year old father of 3 boys. My eldest son has autistic spectrum disorder and learning disabilities. Autism is a word that everyone knows but very few people understand, even those that do understand can only understand their experience and how it directly effects them or their family. …

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January 28 2020

Autism and Accessibility

by Adam Barrett, Access Social Ltd. Being an older brother I have always been very protective of my little sister. (there’s 4 years difference between the two of us) This protectiveness has definitely been increased to biblical proportions due to her disability. Look at her the wrong way, use inappropriate language in her presence, I’ll …

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January 22 2020

Helping your kids with social situations

By Paul Rose, YouTeachMeToo. Have you ever found yourself in social situations that you were not sure how to handle? How did it make you feel? Awkward? Embarrassed? Confused? Angry? Frustrated? It can be hard to understand what other people really mean and expect from you, and it can be just as hard to get …

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January 11 2020

Reflections on the rewards of supporting refugee children and families

by Lynne Awbery, teacher of the deaf. A lawyer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a mother from Sudan, a teacher from former Yugoslavia, an architect from Somalia, a doctor from Eritrea, a teenager from Rwanda, a carpenter from Afghanistan, a trafficked mother from Ghana, a housewife, widow and mother from Sri Lanka….. and …

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January 8 2020

Because of Indee, we created a community.

by Jane Allen, Indee Rose Trust In 2009 we sadly lost our beautiful daughter, Indee Rose, after a short illness diagnosed with a DIPG type brain tumour. At only 3 years of age, Indee showed us positivity, strength and her biggest gift was to show us how to stay happy and laugh her way throughout …

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December 30 2019

From Cancer to SEND – a bumpy journey of acceptance.

It can be hard to transition from being a cancer family to a special educational needs and disability family. This is one family's story.

November 30 2019

Social Situations – teach your child how you want them to react.

by Paul Rose of YouTeachMeToo There comes a time when you have to decide: accept the status quo or take positive action. For 12 years I worked in UK schools, including a few years as a headteacher. Despite running a ‘successful’ school, I decided I could no longer watch young people being failed. So I …

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November 27 2019

I am my mum’s carer by Alfie, aged 6.

My name is Alfie and I am 6 years old. When God made my Mummy he forgot to give her one of the bones in her back and taught the soldiers in her body to fight the good things in her body instead of the bad things in her body. This means that she is …

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November 9 2019

Relationships—the key to an inclusive education by Elizabeth Wright.

The moment that I was born my parents had to think about my education. They had to consider a multitude of aspects— what type of education they wanted for me, how to get the best education for me, and which school would be the best school to send me to. There was an urgency to …

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October 13 2019