SENDcast Spotlight – Welcome Chantal Bryan & Sarah Giles

No-one’s story should ever involve a parent needing to remove a child from school in order to teach them to read and write.  If we had to do this for all our children, there would be national uproar. 

Through Chantal’s experience as a mother who took her son out of special school to teach him to read and write, she has seen first hand the need for a greater understanding of the potential to learn in students with complex needs. Chantal has also experienced the immeasurable difference that being able to read and write makes both for a child or young person who is non-speaking, and also their family and friends around them. This has driven and motivated her determination to make a difference for those children.

Sarah trained as a primary school teacher and later became a SENCo within a mainstream primary school. After a few years away from the classroom while she had her own family, Sarah was introduced to Jonathan & his family who were looking for the help of a primary school teacher for his home education. Sarah then worked with Chantal to teach Jonathan at home for several years. When Jonathan established Teach Us Too, he asked her to take a lead on his behalf and she has been working with the charity ever since.