Tag: additional needs
The long wait for a home
According to Jenny MacQuire, children with disabilities often wait the longest for adoption.
There are about two thousand children waiting for adoption in England, and...
Only 4% of disabled children can go to a holiday club...
How do you keep yourself entertained during the summer holidays? Perhaps you've been playing with your friends or you might even have been dropped...
Safeguarding
Karen Childs Smith on safeguarding when working with children and young people with additional needs.
Children and young people who have special educational needs and...
Painting Fantasy Miniatures as a therapy
Danny Bennet shares his experiences of the therapeutic effects of creating and painting fantasy miniatures in the classroom.
In an Additional Support Needs (ASN) setting,...
Freddie and the High Flying Kick
The author of this storybook is the mother of two children, one of whom has a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. In this, her first book,...
The importance of music and performing arts
Alistair Dewar has seen the power that the performing arts hold for children with SEND.
Aristotle once said: “Music has a power of forming the...