Tag: communication
Raising expectations
Nicola Enoch on why expectations matter, how knowledge strengthens practice, and how everyday classroom decisions can either expand or restrict opportunity.
For pupils with Down...
How AI supports Special Education
AI offers transformative possibilities that align perfectly with special education's core principles of individualised instruction and evidence-based practice. Zac Amos explains how this technology...
AAC abandonment
Daisy Clay takes a candid look at why abandonment of electronic communication aids is so common, and what can we do about it.
For children,...
Transforming engagement with immersive technology
Soorj Gill looks at immersive technology, and its potential to provide flexible, inclusive ways to promote wellbeing, engagement and self-expression.
Immersive learning tools such as...
PoV: Finding ways to communicate with a young child
The external challenges and private successes of Tilly Hawkes.
When Ada, my youngest daughter, was in her early years, communication was extremely difficult. As she...
Intensive Interaction
Patryk Flissikowski on the role of Intensive Interaction in fostering secure attachment.
When we support neurodivergent children and young people, it is essential to understand...
It’s instrumental
If music was the thread which flowed through education, we'd raise our overall cognitive capacity, writes Rachael Diop.
Teachers are often working with groups who...
Makaton for people with learning disabilities
Katie Dooley Cawley and Hannah Brown investigate the evidence around the effectiveness of teaching Makaton to people with learning disabilities.
As Speech and Language Therapy...
Point of view: Gaslighting
Show them that their experiences are real and they matter, says Teodora Byrne.
Gaslighting is when someone denies another person's reality so consistently that the...
Yoga and emotional regulation
Lisa Harwood explores how yoga can provide tools to help emotional self-regulation in children and young people with special educational needs.
You're upset, anxious, tearful...
