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SEN support in schools - What's the real story? A recent government inquiry showed that parents of children with special educational needs feel let down by the educational system. |
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Could your child have neuro developmental delay? Neuro developmental delay could explain why your child is having problems with their development. NDD expert Sue Cook of www.helpingadhd.com explains what NDD means for your child. |
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ADHD and siblings Children with ADHD can make family life challenging, and it can be hard for siblings. Home can feel like a never-ending war zone when one of them is a child with ADHD. |
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How can a clinical psychologist help your child with SEN? We find out about the role a clinical psychologist plays in supporting children with special educational needs. |
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Managing ADHD at home How do you manage your child's ADHD at home? At school a child has individual learning plans, special educational need coordinators and classroom assistants, but when the child comes home it is often just the parent coping alone. |
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Help your child's communication skills The ability to communicate is something many of us take for granted, but one in ten children in the UK struggle with a communication development or disability. |
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Understanding ADHD in children Understanding how ADHD affects your child at school, and the type of support that should be in place, will make it easier to support your child’s learning, writes Shivon Genus. |
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Introducing the My Child family learning online shop We've launched our new online catalogue shop. Visit the site at http://shop.mychild.co.uk. |
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Making Sense of the SEN Code of Practice With around one in five UK children experiencing some sort of special educational needs at some point in their school life, the SEN Code of Practice document aims to provide extensive support for pupils, teaching staff, and parents. |
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Inclusion in the Classroom: New Opportunities to Achieve Many black and minority ethnic pupils are underachieving in English schools. What possible reasons are there for the underachievement of these children in particular? Could it be that inclusion in education is not working effectively? |
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Your child's concentration skills Concentration involves keeping your mind focused on one thing for a certain amount of time. And it doesn't simply refer to work, concentration applies to most things which require attention. |
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The Power of Music to Soothe Hyperactivity In 1992 the late Dr Gordon Shaw realised that students performed markedly better in reasoning tests after listening to a particular Mozart sonata. He claimed that the patterns and symmetries in Mozart's music are very cerebral and organised in a way that takes account of how our brains learn most effectively. This is known as the ‘Mozart effect'. |
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10 Things to Know About ADHD Although ADHD affects children in different ways, we have a variety of useful tips to help you support your child's needs, and help them to lead a healthy and happy life. |
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Living with ADHD ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) can look like bad behaviour. Ignoring instructions, carelessness, disorganisation, running around when it's just not appropriate, blurting out the answer before the question is asked, not waiting in line, and so on and so on. |
