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Amelia's mum shared this find from Amazon

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Here are some helpful considerations about classrooms and school for children with ASD.

Anything is possible. A really great video.

Dark dens are great for sensory play. Have you one of these or created your own?

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A FOND TRIBUTE TO JANE HOWE Just as the children and families we are privileged to work with are individual and unique, so too was Jane. As you read this tribute to a beautiful lady who radiated warmth and enthusiasm, we know that she touched the lives of so many people. Jane arrived to East Yorkshire Portage Team with a wealth of knowledge and experience of working with children with special educati...onal needs, initially taking a while to be accepted in to an already established team, however she soon endeared herself to her colleagues when they realised that along with being very professional and organised with her work she could also be somewhat ditzy, for example when attending training for the first time with her new colleagues she had forgotten her purse and had to ‘borrow’ from the team and she continued in this vain by leaving an assortment of her belongings at various homes and venues across East Yorkshire. She was always the consummate professional developing the Portage Service until it became a 5 Star Service nationally, she was innovative and embraced change and pioneered the Portage Stamp of Approval in East Riding, a quality assurance mark to support fully inclusive education in Early Years settings. This has then been picked up and embedded as good practice within the National Portage Association. Jane ran Portage Workshops and through these upskilled and improved practice in the Early Years workforce across the county. Her main passion was to improve the lives of children with additional needs and their families, by ensuring they had the best early intervention that was available, through children being included and supported to succeed. Jane was compassionate, inspirational, caring, sensitive, intuitive and many other things besides, but above all she was good fun, managing to bridge the gap between supervisor and the Portage team, whilst always maintaining a high level of professionalism. Jane could be relied upon at keeping confidences; she was good at resolving difficulties and was able to relate to people from all walks of life. Her love and pride in all of her family was evident to us all and we will miss her terribly for many reasons but particularly her wicked sense of humour and never ending diets. To all our many wonderful memories Jane, gone too soon, but never forgotten.
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We received some really nice feedback from Jamie Ellis (Liverpool), who has recently completed BTEC Portage Level 4, which we wanted to share….“I have benefitted in doing the BTEC Portage Level 4 as I am now currently incorporating the Portage principles into my work in Kensington life bank nursery, as we have numerous children with special educational needs. Although completing the qualification was hard with working full time as well as having two young children to look aft...er, I found that by doing one module at a time it was easier than I thought. I couldn’t have completed the qualification without the help, support, advice and feedback given to me by my Portage Mentor Jane McHale. I have had the opportunity be the only one in Liverpool to get the qualification. Thank you very much for your guidance throughout the course.” Well done Jamie and thank you for your message.
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PORTAGE AND EARLY YEARS DEVELOPMENT DAY – FRIDAY 16th November, ‘18. "Supporting Children who have Social Communication Difficulties" - This day for practitioners and parents will run from 10.30-17.30 and offers the opportunity to attend two seminars and our Keynote Presentation delivered by Melanie Vijayaratnam from ‘Adapt to Learn Limited’. Melanie’s keynote will focus on ‘Using Intensive Interaction to Promote Communication’. We will be joined on the day by a dynamic group... of practitioners from a range of early years disciplines who, through workshops and seminars will share and develop ideas and practice to enhance work with children. Join us in Birmingham at The Priory Rooms Meeting and Conference Centre For more information, full programme for the day and application form visit the NPA website - https://www.portage.org.uk/…/national-p ortage-association-c…
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