Category Archives: Episodes

Executive Function Skills and Neurodiversity Traits with Victoria Bagnall

Discussing Executive Function Skills and Neurodiversity Traits

The Boundaries Between Education and Care with Zara Wright

Zara Wright joins Dale to discuss the boundaries between education and care

Additional Needs Haircut Services with Craig Henderson

Hair cuts for children and young people with additional needs.

How Our Brains Project Our Past with Alison Knowles

Discussing how our brains take our past experiences and project them onto our life.

Engaging Pupils with SEMH and Other Behaviour Needs with Adele Bates

Adele Bates discussed engaging children with SEHM and other behaviour needs.

Reducing Teacher Workload By Supporting Pupils With SEND From The Get-Go with Zoe Mather

Zoe Mather discusses reducing teacher workload with better SEND support.

Effective Advocacy & Why Fighting Doesn’t Work with Jodie Warren

Discussing Effective Advocacy & Why Fighting Doesn’t Work

EHCNA with Amanda Sokell

Amanda Sokell discussed Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA)

Goal Setting with Alison Knowles

Helping young people learn to set goals and follow through on them.

Exercise, Play and Sensory Integration for Disabled Children with Stephanie Wheen

Enhancing Physical Activity, Recreation, and Sensory Integration for Children with Disabilities

Incidental Conversations with Ginny Bootman

When used in a conversional way or in language, incidental talk means to have a [...]

Focus On What They Can Do, Not What They Can’t with Joanne Jones

Dale discusses the importance of focussing on what a child can do above what they [...]

SENCO Workload and Wellbeing with Lynn How

Lynn How tells us about how to look after your wellbeing as a SENCO, making [...]

Tourette’s in the Education System with Lucy Toghill

To continue our theme of Tourette's during Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month, Dale sits down to [...]

Venn Diagrams and Icebergs: How to Negotiate the A to Z of SEND with Fintan O’Regan

There is an A to Z of labels or terms with SEND and there are [...]

Helping Children with PMLD Thrive with Yoga with Jyoti Jo Manuel

For many years the potential for yoga to be helpful for children who have limited [...]

Tourette’s? (Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month – May 15th to June 15th) with Ione Georgakis

Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month is observed every year from May 15 to June 15. The [...]

Teaching Phonics to ALL Learners – What About SLD and PMLD Pupils? with Dr Sarah Moseley

This week Dale is joined on the podcast by Dr Sarah Moseley to discuss the [...]

LEGO® Play – Social and Emotional Wellbeing with Dr Gina Gómez de la Cuesta

Dr Gina Gómez de la Cuesta talks to Dale about how to use LEGO to [...]

The Labelling Lurgy with Abigail Hawkins

This week we are discussing the labelling lurgy, the need to label everything with Abigail [...]

Myth Busting the Magic of Sensory Rooms with Joanna Grace

Multisensory rooms have become increasingly popular. They typically occupy considerable space, require substantial financial investment, [...]

Black and Autistic or Neurodivergent with Suzy Rowland, Keisha Swaby and Lauren Fernandez

Did you know that children from ethnic minority groups are excluded at a rate that’s [...]

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How To Help Pupils Understand and Express How They Feel with Sue White

Children are needing more support than ever with their language skills. The Education Endowment Foundation [...]

We Need To Talk About Excel with Ginny Bootman

Do you love Excel or avoid it? If conditional formatting, VLOOKUP, freezing panes, formulas and [...]