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Some sound advice for the holiday!

Freebie Friday! Easter Holidays are just around the corner, The National Autistic Society has some great advice about planning your holiday and preparing your child for change, take a look http://www.autism.org.uk/about/family-life/holidays-trips/preparation.aspx #DGTALK
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This article, looking at younger children, covers similar areas to our pack aimed at young people 11-13 years of age - TA8 Talking About Social and Emotional Skills http://bit.ly/TA8SocEmot

Active listening focuses attention on the speaker and includes listening and restating what was heard. This form of listening helps students feel valued and connected to the adults in their school and enhances mutual understanding. Studies demonstrate that when children sense that they are an accept...
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Free resources!

Freebie Friday! Autism Week is fast approaching. Here are some free resources for teachers to help children develop their understanding of Autism. #DGTALK Dumfries and Galloway Council Supporting Autism Together Parents Inclusion Network Dumfries and Galloway Autism Network http://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/world-autism-awareness-week/schools/free-school-resources.aspx
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Great feedback for SLTs

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Ministers says they value British Sign Language, but disappoint MPs who want a GCSE in it.
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The Squirrel Story Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) was developed as an assessment of discourse-level oral narrative comprehension in young children. It was developed as part of doctoral research at Curtin University in Western Australia, which investigated oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmentallanguage disorder (Dawes, 2017).

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Great film from Oz. A must see for us all, teachers, parents & SLTs.

Outside the Square is a series of films to increase dyslexia awareness in education and provide teachers with effective teaching strategies. The documentary will provide an understanding of dyslexia to EVERY teacher in EVERY classroom of EVERY school. The set of DVDs are valuable for teachers, paren...
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The three R’s - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - reflect the traditional basic skills approach to education which focuses o...
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Note: decodable texts, decodable readers, phonics books, phonics readers all refer to the same thing and are used interchangeably. I’ve chosen to use the term ‘decodable texts’ :)…
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