Thousands of Special School Placements announced that no-one has asked for?

Written by Colin Newton on February 8, 2016. Posted in Blog, Uncategorized

Alliance For Inclusive Education needs your stories! As part of the recent Comprehensive Spending Review, the Government has announced that they will be creating thousands of new special school placements for disabled children and young people without any consultation. ALLFIE wants to do something about this so we want to hear from you about your experiences. If you are currently in discussions/ negotiations with a school or local authority and you believe you are being pressured against your personal preference into accepting a special school place or other form of segregated provision (including residential) for your child, we would like to hear from you, particularly when the child is currently at home and/or is in a mainstream school. We would need your contribution by 18th February 2016. We are very sorry for this short notice but we too have only recently been given this date and want to gather as many of your experiences as possible before we miss the opportunity to take action. Please forward this information to anyone you may know. Please send your information to: simone.aspis@allfie.org.uk

Sefton ‘Moving Forward’ PATH

Written by Colin Newton on February 3, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Lovely PATH in Sefton on Moving Forward. Facilitated by Colin and Jacqui.

PATH Process – Step by Step guide

Kent Educational Psychologists learning Circles of Adults

Written by Colin Newton on January 31, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Lovely group of Educational Psychologists in Kent, given Circles of Adults training facilitated by Colin and Derek. Here’s their feedback.

Circle of Adults Live Demo Video

Halton PATH

Written by Colin Newton on January 31, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Halton PATH for Inclusive Services in Halton, with Claire Darwin and Colin Newton facilitating.

PATH Process – Step by Step guide

Including Young People with Autism training in Blyth

Written by Colin Newton on January 24, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Working with wonderful parents and professionals with big hearts in Blyth, during our ‘Including Young People with Autism’ training.

PCP and Skill Training for SEN of Hampshire

Written by Colin Newton on January 17, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Derek and Colin provided training on person centred planning and skill training on PATH for SEN Team of Hampshire who have great plans to use this work along with educational psychologist colleagues and parents across the County.

PATH with Herons Dale Primary School in West Sussex

Written by Colin Newton on January 17, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

We created a very positive PATH with Herons Dale Primary school which is an SEN hub for West Sussex. The headteacher took a little convincing that working like this was going to work. She was convinced by the end as you can hear. Marina Costa and Colin Newton were facilitating. January 2016.

PATH Process – Step by Step guide

PATH for the ever-creative Candle team – Grantham (Jan 2016)

Written by Colin Newton on January 17, 2016. Posted in Blog, Training feedback

Candle Team: ‘We are a not-for-profit communication aid centre which supports communication and learning needs of children and adults who need Alternative and Augmentative Communication and Assistive Technology. We work with families, schools, residential homes and local community groups. We offer assessments, advice and training as well as ongoing support.
Our particular specialist areas are implementing and developing communication systems, supporting severely disabled students to access the mainstream curriculum and sustained involvement and networking with families and disability rights groups. We also have a commitment to a person centred approach’. Turn we into they….

Colin and Elliot Newton facilitated the planning for Candle – January 2016 – in Grantham.

PATH Process – Step by Step guide

Adam Turton – Inclusion and living with Tourette’s

Written by Rob Tyrrell on December 7, 2014. Posted in Uncategorized

From my first days at school I knew I was very different to most other people, physically I look like a human being and speak like one… but what was within me didn’t fit with the unspoken “norm”. The major difference between me and most other people is that I have Tourette’s syndrome; and this fact of my life has caused me a lot of grief. For example, because I didn’t find the same things entertaining as other kids, it seemed like I was judging them by not joining in. And because I didn’t understand social cues as well as I do now, I came across as being confrontational and odd. Despite these differences, which were clear to me, I just couldn’t understand why people wouldn’t set aside the differences and accept me for who I am. Whatever the reason, my peers made me feel like a complete social pariah and my schools, (at this stage of my life I lived in the USA), conspired to leave me feeling the same way. When I was bullied for being different, school officials would say things like, ‘boys will be boys’ and ‘try to fit in better’.

Thousands of Special School Placements announced that no-one has asked for?

Sefton ‘Moving Forward’ PATH

Kent Educational Psychologists learning Circles of Adults

Halton PATH

Including Young People with Autism training in Blyth

PCP and Skill Training for SEN of Hampshire

PATH with Herons Dale Primary School in West Sussex

PATH for the ever-creative Candle team – Grantham (Jan 2016)

Adam Turton – Inclusion and living with Tourette’s

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