5 Reasons Why Most Schools Fail Your Child With Special Needs: and what you can do about it - Softcover

Soli Lazarus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908941898 ISBN 13: 9781908941893

Publisher: The Endless Bookcase, 2017

Synopsis

School can be an amazing place for our children to grow, explore and develop. However, to often our children with special needs are not adequately catered for. Their needs are not met and they end up failing causing their self esteem to plummet. Soli Lazarus, an expert in the field of special needs, gives practical advice to parents on what should be going on at school and how to support their children at home. This is an easy-to-read, no nonsense guide to getting results that matter. Encouraging schools to produce happy, motivated, free thinkers.

About this title

About the Author

Soli is Asst SENCO and a fully qualified teacher with some 30 years experience; specialising in Inclusion, ADHD, Autism, Asperger's, Developmental Delay, Communication and Learning Difficulties, Down's Syndrome and Dyslexia. She has a senior role in a London mainstream primary school and has attended numerous SEN courses, workshops, exhibitions and has herself run training, workshops and planning sessions. Her son has ADHD and so knows what it's like to struggle and feel isolated. She has also produced a DVD "The Secret To Behaviour Success". Her consultancy Yellow Sun delivers support and advice to parents of children with special needs and challenging behaviour. Soli provides training and workshops to schools to promote understanding of special needs, inclusion and differentiation. Soli runs monthly meetings where parents meet up to share stories, swap ideas and to generally support one another. Soli delivers a brief training session at each meeting. Soli is passionate about raising awareness of how to manage children effectively to raise their self-esteem and promote emotional well-being. It is a disgrace that new teachers do not have specific training in ADHD. So she has set up a petition to the Government demanding proper training of teachers in ADHD. Finally, Soli wants to give back. So she donates a proportion of her income to projects that directly help struggling families.

Review

Super little book filled with positive ideas to get you, your child and your school climbing the mountain together. Soli is an experienced Inclusion Specialist and Assistant SENCo and she turns experiences of success and failure into wisdom and inspiration. This isn't a book that tells you how to do your Local Authority's job for them, nor is it a Tribunal guide. It's about getting through the school door and having that conversation with your child's teacher that will make things start to click: it's about practical and well-tried ideas to bring a fresh approach to the needs of children with ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, learning disabilities, Asperger's Syndrome, social, emotional and mental health needs. Soli brings a healthy perspective and irresistible energy to familiar problems in this light-touch, beautifully-presented resource.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Endless Bookcase
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908941898
• ISBN 13: 9781908941893
• Binding: Paperback