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Monday 12 July 2021 Vanessa's Blog: Summer Holiday Tips! We all know how stressful the 6 week break can be. Below are some ideas which may help everyone to cope a bit better. Adapt them to suit your child, your family and your circumstances.
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Friday 23 April 2021 Vanessa's Blog: School Refusal Top Tips for supporting children who are refusing to come to school
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Monday 22 February 2021 Vanessa's Blog: February - Back to school again! Preparing for a return to school - by Becky White
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Monday 1 February 2021 Vanessa's Blog: January - ...but when? One of the tricky things we have to manage at the moment is the uncertainty of when schools will be fully open again. We know our young people cope a lot better with change if they have time to process the idea and prepare themselves, but that can be difficult to achieve when we are all waiting for government announcements to guide us. This is not a new situation. We often find ourselves wanting to prepare young people, when we don’t yet have all of the information. Two examples would be moving house or waiting for a new baby to arrive.
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Thursday 21 January 2021 Vanessa's Blog: December - Top Strategies of 2020 2020 has been a year that none of us could have predicted and the outreach team have often found ourselves faced with questions we could never have predicted 12 months before. How do we teach a child with autism to socially distance? How do we engage our kids in home learning, when they really want home and school to be kept completely separate? How do we get them back in after 6 months at home? Throughout the pandemic we have tried to keep supporting schools and families in new and different ways, which has been a learning process for all. The website has been a big part of that and it has been really lovely to hear that so many of you find our resource pages useful. For my final blog of 2020, I enlisted the team to have a think about what have been their go-to strategies this year;
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Friday 30 October 2020 Vanessa's Blog: October - Ideas for groups I am asked quite often about social skills programs that you can follow with intervention groups or what to do with a group targeting girls, or anxiety. The truth is that there a lot of programs out there, but few of them actually do the things we need them to, taking into social context and mental health. The best intervention groups draw from a number of different resources and strategies, adapting to the individual needs of your group. Here are some of my favourite ideas for social and emotional learning in small groups;
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Wednesday 30 September 2020 Vanessa's Blog: September - Logic Diagrams
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Monday 29 June 2020 Vanessa's Blog: June - Sleep
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Thursday 21 May 2020 Vanessa's Blog - May: Top Ten Tips for Returning to School
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Tuesday 19 May 2020 Letter from Mind Matters Surrey
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Monday 11 May 2020 Recovery curriculum
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Thursday 30 April 2020 Vanessa's Blog - April: Oughtism and Autism in a Pandemic
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Thursday 19 March 2020 Outreach Service and Training on hold
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Wednesday 18 March 2020 COVID 19 resources
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Friday 28 February 2020 Vanessa's Blog - February: Screen time
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Friday 31 January 2020 Vanessa's Blog - January: Back to Basics!
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Wednesday 15 January 2020 Appear are recruiting for people to support neuro-diverse girls
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Friday 20 December 2019 Vanessa's Blog - December: Energy Accounting at Christmas
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Tuesday 26 November 2019 Vanessa's Blog - November: Interoception (and xmas!)
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Friday 22 November 2019 Conference now open for bookings!
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Friday 1 November 2019 Vanessa's Blog - October: Books for Professionals
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Monday 30 September 2019 Vanessa's Blog - September: New School Year
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Wednesday 1 May 2019 Vanessa's Blog - Where has the blog gone?
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Friday 1 February 2019 Vanessa's Blog - January: Supporting Siblings
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Wednesday 19 December 2018 Help Over Christmas
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