One of the increasingly known conditions that can come hand-in-hand with Autism and related SEN is pathological demand avoidance (or PDA for short!) PDA is becoming more and more of a hot topic amongst many health professionals but, still, very few understand it deeply. PDA describes the way that a person may struggle with everyday …
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Tips and tricks to support a child with ADHD
Children and adults can be wrongly assumed to be ‘misbehaving’ due to how their ADHD presents, it is vital to remember that this is not the case. Punishing a child for the behaviors they exhume because of their ADHD will only lower their self-confidence. Something they may already struggle with. It can be hard sometimes …
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PDA and ‘conforming’
Todays society has so many unspoken and assumed ‘rules’. Be it in shops where you will find an array of pink in the ‘girls’ section and blue ‘for boys’, or how a child is expected to kiss their family member goodbye despite saying “No, thankyou”. When did these silent expectations begin to dictate how we …
Resources and aids to help your SEN child on a budget!
It’s been a while! After my brief period of being MIA I’m back with a biggie! Finding resources and aids to help your SEN child with a low budget! When it comes to aids for our SEN kids we immediately imagine of all the wonderful things that we can have to support out little ones. …
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