Ruth D-Whyte is an educational consultant as well as a mother of a 17-year-old child with Special needs and has gained loads of experience through the years. I must start by stating out rightly that this is a hard time for everyone with children especially for kids with Special needs. Blatantly, if you need a […]
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Ruth D-Whyte is an educational consultant as well as a mother of a 17-year-old child with Special needs and has gained loads of experience through the years. I must start by stating out rightly that this is a hard time for everyone with children especially for kids with Special needs. Blatantly, if you need a
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The World Report on Disability reveals that we have approximately one billion people in the world living with a disability, with at least 1 in 10 being children and 80% living in developing countries. More than 6 million with disabilities are enrolled in public schools (National Education Association, n.d.) Having noted this undeniable fact, there
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“We were able to make an incontrovertible case that the genetic risk contributing to autism is genetic risk that exists in all of us, and influences our behaviour and social communication” Dr Mark Daly, co-director of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT All learners in are varying societies should feel welcomed and valued, they
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Fiction: It was Janes birthday and I planned to celebrate her birthday at School. Jane just turned 15! Unfortunately, as a mum of a child with profound learning needs, I dreaded each year Jane grew older. Jane has a severe learning disability and other disabilities that significantly affects her ability to communicate and be independent.
Disparities between the school and the home for children with PMLD’S. Read More »
It is the year 2020 and the whole world was thrown into a horrendous shock! COVID-19, a major pandemic evaded the earth and all the Humans resolved to shield themselves from the devastating effect of the disease. Educationally speaking, the learners were also not left out, they tried as hard as they could to lock
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Positive teacher-student relationships — evidenced by teachers’ reports of low conflict, a high degree of closeness and support, and little dependency — have been shown to support students’ adjustment to school, contribute to their social skills, promote academic performance and foster students’ resiliency in academic performance (Battistich, Schaps, & Wilson, 2004; Birch & Ladd, 1997;
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Every true educator wants the best for all their learners and in almost all classrooms, we find disengaged learners, seemingly inattentive, and lacking the ability to process information. Personally, I would say having some of these learners make the class rather energetic. We discover some of these learners missing deadlines or turning up late for
The negative impact of poor Executive Functioning in our Learners. Read More »
Neurodiversity is a relatively new term that acknowledges that all our brains work differently. Judy Singer came up with the term in the late 1990s, an Australian sociologist. She used the term in her sociology thesis in 1996-1998 (and formally presented the paper in 1998) “Singer, a sociologist on the autism spectrum, rejected the idea
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The Secrets of knowing. If you have ever wondered about some diverse situations you may have faced with some children , then you are reading the right article. This is because you are about to discover a simple method for understanding such issues better. Read on…The iceberg encapsulates the impression that what we see on
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