Tag: Point of View
Point of view: Education Officer at nasen
Seeing the 'ability' in disability. Zoe Mather says we should be treating people more fairly.
In education we should be continually looking to challenge the...
Point of view: home educator
Do it yourself. Rachel Hawkins is home-educating her autistic daughter.
I have only been home educating my eleven-year-old daughter Isabelle since September, as she needed...
Point of view: SEN lawyer
Reframe bad things into good things. A personal recommendation from Douglas Silas, specialist in SEN law.
It's not easy to reframe bad things into good...
Point of view: parent – Toilet training
Faria Arsh's heartfelt account of her neurodivergent daughter's toilet training journey.
Why does any parent want to toilet-train their child? In any other circumstances, the...
Point of View: diversity campaigner
You can't be what you can't see. We need more disabled teachers, says Ruth Golding.
Education should fully represent society, and it's important that we...
Point of view: legal specialist
EHCPs: Why families need legal advice. This process is becoming more complex, writes Guv Samra.
In my experience, families often don’t know where to start...
Point of view: parent
I had to do something to turn our negative experience into a force for good, writes Rebecca Clapcott.
Archie's arrival was a turbulent one, with...
Point of view: parent
Baking, dyslexia and parenthood. Alex Tait’s on a roll…
I wear two hats. One that comes with being a specialist dyslexia teacher and the other,...
Point of view: parent
Stereotypes, time-machines and Frida Kahlo
When able-bodied people think about wheelchairs, what associations do they make? My guess is that words like adventure, exploration and...
Point of view: students
Schools need safe spaces: what we did in our school
Two Y11 students, Chaitanya Sapra and Zahra Qazi from Aylesbury High School, share why they...