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This Learning disability Week’s theme is creativity. We asked our new Evaluation Manager, Dr Karen McInnes, to talk about the value of play and playfulness and its role in communicating and learning creatively.

Rewriting the Narrative : Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending school Dr Moyse used a type of free-form timeline (from a design by Majid, 2021) with the participants in her study. This enabled each girl to record the events and experiences from her school years that were of most significance to her.

Rewriting the Narrative Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending schools Dr Ruth Moyse has created this summary booklet and poster to support her webinar from May 2021.

Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending school A subtitled video of the webinar from May 2021 by Dr Ruth Moyse. Children who stop attending school are often called truants or school refusers, placing the reason for their absence as a problem within the child. This session proposes a different way of interpreting their absence, by sharing lessons learnt from research with 10 autistic girls who stopped attending mainstream secondary schools.

Highlights from the 2021 Inclusion Education Festival hosted by NDTi #inclusionEdFest.

After many adventures, Bilbo moved from his independent life at Bag End to a retirement home. The House of Elrond in Rivendell provided him with a welcome and a safe space to age, write his memoirs and build his friendships before taking ship to the Undying Lands. It was his Last Homely House.

The inclusion traffic lights help us think about the places people go and the people they connect with.

Author: Karen James, SENCO and Early Years & Inclusion Professional. Five years on from reforms introduced to better support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), the government launched a major review into SEND.

With the SEND Review due imminently, equal opportunities for all young people will be an expectation, this is an exciting opportunity to do the right thing rather than trying to do the wrong thing better

Recently I spent the day at the Westminster Insight Conference and was struck by the number of times people referred to inclusion, in particular, the challenges that inclusion brings. But I have to ask – is it really that challenging?