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Posted on June 24, 2016November 9, 2017Education

Pooky Knightsmith: Three good reasons to write bad poetry

You don’t need to be a poet to write poetry, and you don’t need to write ‘good’ poetry to get a lot out of it. …

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Posted on May 24, 2016November 9, 2017Adoption

Paolo Hewitt describes the talk he gave about growing up in Burbank Children’s Home

Paolo Hewitt, author of But We All Shine On and The Looked After Kid, was in Woking last week, the town of the children’s home in which he…

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Posted on May 12, 2016August 5, 2016Autism

Diana Hudson provides useful exam time tips for parents whose child has a Specific Learning Difficulty

Specific learning Difficulties (SpLDs) include conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, attention deficit disorder (ADHD) or autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Exam time is stressful for…

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Posted on May 3, 2016November 9, 2017Education

The significance of sex and sexuality in young people’s education – Nick Luxmoore shares his views

Nick Luxmoore reflects upon his new book Horny and Hormonal to discuss the significance of sex and sexuality in young people’s education, and how these often awkward…

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Autism
Posted on April 4, 2016July 3, 2017Autism

Tips for moving out of the family home if you are on the autism spectrum.

For those on the higher-functioning end of the autism spectrum moving out of the family home can be very difficult. David J. Burns, author of the brilliant…

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Posted on March 21, 2016July 3, 2017Arts therapies

Sign up for the Autism Movement Therapy® April 2016 UK workshops

Founder of Autism Movement Therapy® Inc. Joanne Lara will be in the UK this April to run AMT® certification workshops that will be open to…

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Autism
Posted on March 18, 2016February 13, 2017Autism

There is more to autism than meets the eye… read the hilarious first chapter of Do Lemons Have Feathers?

You can now read the first chapter of David J. Burns’ laugh-out-loud funny guide to taking advantage of the gift of autism.     Click…

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luke jackson
Posted on February 19, 2016November 9, 2017Adults

Read an extract from Luke Jackson’s brilliant new book Sex, Drugs & Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD): A User Guide to Adulthood

14 years after the publication of his bestselling book Freaks, Geeks & Asperger Syndrome, Luke Jackson is back with the sequel, Sex, Drugs & Asperger’s Syndrome (ASD):…

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Jeanette Purkis
Posted on January 12, 2016May 8, 2017Autism

10 years on Jeanette Purkis remembers finding her different kind of normal

To mark the 10th anniversary of Finding a Different Kind of Normal Jeanette Purkis recalls the events surrounding its publication and the extraordinary effect it has had…

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Posted on December 14, 2015July 3, 2017Counselling

The Making of ‘Dad’s Not All There Any More – A comic about dementia’.

Alex Demetris is an illustrator, cartoonist and maker of comics. He completed an MA in Illustration in 2012, which resulted in a comic based on…

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