Tag: PMLD
Quality of life
It's easy for schools to be drawn into a medical model of support for students with PMLD, writes Emmet Murphy, but we should be...
Issue 139 ● November December 2025
In this issue: dance, dyslexia's ripple effect, teacher assumptions, embedding life skills, child-parent abuse, PANS and PANDAS, micro interventions, autistic cognition, polytropism bias, empathy...
Changing to inclusive phonics
Shelby Mercer's candid account of her special school's journey to phonics for all.
Over the past few years, we have been on a journey to...
Gatsby Benchmarks updated
Lisa Greig is a passionate early adopter of the updated Gatsby Benchmarks for good career guidance, transforming the lives of young people with SEND.
Good...
Targeted training
A charity in Shropshire is providing life-changing physiotherapy for children.
Two-year-old Archie Klein from Market Drayton has spastic diplegic Cerebral Palsy. He is benefiting from...
Sheer joy
Alice Walton describes the therapeutic benefits of musical hydrotherapy for children with complex needs.
What happens if children experiencing aquatic therapy can also listen to—and...
SEN131 : July/August 2024
Read SEN Magazine SEN131 : Jul/Aug here
There are too many excellent articles in this issue to summarise them all in this brief introduction, so...
Storymaking
Lauran Doak explores how children with learning disabilities engage with an iPad storymaking app.
An iPad storymaking app allows users to create their own stories...
Use visuals
Use visual symbols to support children through change, says Gina Smith.
For a child, knowing what is happening in your day helps you to feel...
Profound and multiple learning difficulties
Peter Imray on the support required by learners with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) and complex learning difficulties (CLD).
In addition to profound learning...
