‘No Ticks - No Boxes’
Outstanding Practice in the Education of SLD/PMLD Learners
Two-day Forum
Led by Flo Longhorn with 20 Presenters
to be held at Swiss Cottage School Conference Centre, Central London
30 November and 1 December 2017
This forum is dedicated to the memory of Timmy Pettitt, the Sunshine Boy, a very special person.
Presentation Topics
- A wandering minstrel with a squeeze box
- Bio behaviours
- Child/student centred approaches - whole school development
- Engagement - new perspectives
- Equals SLD/PMLD semi-formal curriculum
- Experiential playfulness with elephants’ trunks and paper plates
- Happiness and Life Satisfaction for the very special person
- How do I know what I am feeling? Interoception
- Immersive environments
- Lilli Nielsen’s legacy - active learning, little rooms, resonance boards
- Meaningful observations
- No boxes, no ticks?
- Outstanding school approaches from Chailey Heritage, Woodlands and Ash Field Academy
- Personalised assessment, personalised curricula - a whole school approach
- Social justice and people with SLD/PMLD
- Resonance boards - calling and responding
- Schematic learning - supporting early development of repeated behaviours
- Sensing the world around and forming secure attachments
- The brain, neurology, sounds and music
- Sensory science, story of a star
- Routes for Learning - updates!
- ‘Teaching the unteachable: managing the unmanageable’- one school’s approach
- Blogging the sensory dispensary
- Mental health - developing well-being plans
The Presenters
- Andrew Colley, Special Education Lecturer, University of East London
- Ellen Croft, PMLD Curriculum Leader, Ash Field Academy, Leicester
- Flo Longhorn, Principal Consultant in Special/Multisensory Educ0tion, Belgium
- Gillian Carver, St. Ann's School, London
- Helen Lane, Neurologic Music Therapist, Woodlands School, London
- Dr James Galpin, Developmental Psychologist, The Bridge School, London
- Jane Thistlethwaite (N.Z.), Teaching Fellow, Birmingham University
- Joanna Grace, Author, Trainer and Founder of the Sensory Project, Cornwall
- Julie Tilbury, Lead Teacher SPMLD, Chailey Heritage School
- Hannah McCarthy, SPMLD Teacher, Chailey Heritage School
- Hannah Underwood, John Fielding School
- Keith Park, Independent Special Interactions Consultant, London
- Les Staves, Very Special Maths Consultant, Leeds
- Lucy Allen, John Fielding School
- Dr Maria Robinson, Early Years Author, Bedfordshire
- Peter Imray, Special Educational Training and Advice, Bedfordshire
- Phil Martin, Retired Special School Headteacher, Routes for Learning Wales
- Sarah Hall, Founder Willows Sensory Service, Birmingham
- Simon Yates, Chailey Heritage School, East Sussex
- Timothy Holdsworth, St. Ann's School, London
- Spotlight on the work of Dr Lilli Nielsen, Denmark
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