Tag: speech and language
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When in Rome…or in this case Cyprus
I don’t know about you, but I love people watching. Of course I am always on the look out for children with ADHD! Restaurants, bus and train journeys are the best. Great opportunity to just subtlety watch and observe. My family think it’s hysterical as predictably as I will go up to the mum and…
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16 Things You Can Gently Insist Should be Happening In School
I am constantly reading in forums that mums are having to battle with primary schools over basic provisions for our special children. As you may know I am a teacher as well as a mum with a son with ADHD. So I can see what’s going on from both sides. Whilst there are many excellent teachers…
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10 Top Tips to Survive The Summer Holidays (Without Losing Your Sanity)
As the long, long, long, long, long holidays approach some of us mums start to get a little bit anxious. The six week break stretches out before us like a bad dream. School for us is some kind of respite. So without that, life can be a tad stressful. But mums – listen up. We can…
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Have we lost the ability to communicate?
“Jaw jaw – not war war” a wonderfully positive statement famously muttered by Winston Churchill in 1954. In these uncertain times it must always be a credible option to communicate with one another. But what does this communication look like in 2016? Unfortunately I feel the way many communicate today is through a virtual world.…