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hen01.bsky.social
AuDHD PDA, dyslexic dyspraxic. Mother to three brilliant multiply ND kids. HSD, ME/CFS and POTS into the mix. Chair of Trustees of a specialist school, ex teacher and currently studying a post grad in Special and Inclusive Ed Autism.
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On SNJ Today: "My child's increased sensory needs mean more damage to furniture, property, clothes and more need for sensory resources" @familyfund.bsky.social's report shows the high cost of caring for a disabled child leaves some with impossible choices www.specialneedsjungle.com/c... #disability

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

📰💤 New autism sleep research "... there is a necessity to investigate how living conditions, such as enforced schedules in residential facilities, can influence the timing of the sleep midpoint." doi.org/10.1002/aur.... #autismresearch #olgatennisonautismresearchcentre

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Still another 25,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... #SEND #autism #actualkyautistic #neurodivergence

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... #ADHD #ASD #SEND #ND #NEURODUVERGENT Worth signing this...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I'm proud to launch my dedicated #SEND Hotline. If you're a parent or guardian in Northampton South needing support with SEND issues, my team is here to help. My team and I are here to support you with advice, advocacy & action.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting article re the Govt's timescales for #SEND reform - have a read: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

We are incredibly disappointed that @surreycc.gov.uk have appeared to have closed down avenues for #Surrey MPs to raise our constituents' #SEND cases with the council. We Surrey @libdems.org.uk have written to Cllr Clare Curran to share our profound concerns. ✍

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

We are incredibly disappointed that @surreycc.gov.uk appear to have closed down avenues for #Surrey MPs to raise our constituents' #SEND cases with the council. We Surrey @libdems.org.uk have written to Cllr Clare Curren to share our profound concerns. ✍

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

We are incredibly disappointed that @surreycc.gov.uk have appear to have closed down avenues for #Surrey MPs to raise our constituents' #SEND cases with the council. We Surrey @libdems.org.uk have written to Cllr Clare Curran to share our profound concerns. ✍️

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

This is outrageous from @surreycc.gov.uk First they ask Govt to cancel 2025 elections, now they are attempting to close down routes to report #SEND cases for MPs. Least we forget Surrey CC have been found wanting with SEND provision. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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NEW POST: Where is the accountability in #SEND? Catriona Moore watched the latest SEND Inquiry hearings on accountability, including her IPSEA legal colleague, who emphasised that compliance shouldn’t be optional for LAs and health services www.specialneedsjungle.com/a...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

First they cancel elections then they shut down avenues for #Surrey MPs to engage with them on their own #SEND failures Just how undemocratic are Surrey’s Tories?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

On SNJ Today: @catrionamoore.bsky.social writes about this week's Commons Education Committee hearing, where her IPSEA colleague reminded the #SEND Inquiry that public bodies shouldn't treat legal compliance as optional when it comes to #Disabled children's education: www.specialneedsjungle.com/a...

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Interesting article sharing the direction of travel for #SEND #ECHPs and #dyslexia in advance of the Govt's white paper later this year. What do you think? schoolsweek.co.uk/ehcp-shake-u...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

NEW POST: What kind of government is “bold” enough to scrap statutory #EHCPs from vulnerable children? We look at some controversial remarks and what they may mean for families of disabled children www.specialneedsjungle.com/w...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Any ideas for helping a very sad dog feel better about life? Uncomfy cone of shame, sore ears after an op and itching from where he had to be shaved. Sausages and strokes help temporarily, but there's another 10 days to go!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Huge thanks to @scishow.bsky.social for warning all the new folks out there dealing with early M.E. as a result of Covid: ***Exercise makes ME/CFS worse.*** Big props to @diatoma.bsky.social for proposing this topic! REALLY wish I had seen this a decade ago 😭 youtu.be/wxSwYUennBA?...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Can you help❔️ A friend is looking for a work coach / mentor in the UK. More info... 👤They work for a charity in London. They work in the office 1 day /week and do the other 4 at home. 👤They are Autistic, ADHD and have depression and anxiety.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

This article misses the point entirely and gets so much wrong. Neurodiversity is all of us. Neurodivergent is some. It’s a socio-political term. An identity. Not a diagnosis, though there are many comorbidities. You can’t over diagnose an identity, fellas. The word doesn’t belong to us in psych.

submitted 123 days ago • 4 comments

What should happen: “The number of people unable to work due to disability is increasing, so let’s try to get to the root causes and see what preventative and curative measures we can implement to help & support people” Not “Let’s take people’s benefits away”

submitted 127 days ago • 6 comments

Absolutely. Potentially the annual health check saved my autistic son’s life due to dangerously (and previously undiagnosed) high blood pressure. Please think again @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

So Autism Speaks Canada is ceasing operations tomorrow and Spectrum 10K has closed today. What a brilliant week for moving towards autistic liberation.

submitted 128 days ago • 16 comments

New paper alert (and a bit of a must read) The Theory of Mind Hypothesis of Autism: A Critical Evaluation of the Status Quo Long, Catmur, & Bird (2025) doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

submitted 148 days ago • 7 comments

Your regular reminder that our patreon goes just as hard and also pays our bills! www.patreon.com/posts/119898...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

Yet another example of people in power dicking over ME patients. We need journalists to grab this beast by the horns & connect all these seemingly unrelated incidents that add up to a very big health & human rights scandal #GreatestMEdicalScandal absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/01/24/w...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

NEW POST: One NHS trust has come up with a “novel” way to cut neurodiversity assessment waiting lists: Create more barriers to getting on the list in the first place. @rachel.stopsafetyvalve.uk explains more www.specialneedsjungle.com/c...

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments