Mum says she had similar concerns about deaf kids. The TAs who worked with kids daily didn't have the training/background to do daily work in tiny chunks and increment it at speed-of-child to push but not overload, accept variable learning pace, try and spot gaps & fill them, not just bore kids.

Yeah. They think Mum is magic cos she gets him to do a thing for 5 mins. Cos she goes to where he is at, sets a tiny goal, helps him meet it, praises him and is consistent but she only visits 1x a week.

Mum isn't autism/ADHD trained although I suspect she has mild ADHD traits as well as dyslexia.

I think that can work if the people who use/need it try not to be too noisy. I don't think chill zone has to be silent so much as "this is not a chatting space". I also hope the event has other stuff like clear scheduling, space for people to move during sessions etc, breaks, food/drink etc.

Mum keeps asking "If kiddo needs to move, why not take him outside and do maths as whole-body movement?" "Take him outside and measure stuff"

The kid is going to end up in special school in umpty years when the SEND system gets round to it. Dunno if they're looking at meds ADHD dx is new. Poor kid

Even if the kiddo was JUST deaf the school is unsuitable, too noisy, Head won't allow ANY noise reduction options from official teacher of the deaf etc. Kiddo is 'babysat' aka a TA follows him round as he runs around the school, they're not educated enough to educate him on his terms.

I think when we were kids the good schools tried to work with the kid on the kid's terms even if there wasn't a label given to them or whatever.

Sadly it's shit now too. My mum (former teacher of the deaf) helping a deaf kid and the teachers with ADHD/autism in a local OPEN PLAN school.

I don't think I've ever seen a review DSA Needs Assessment take anything away from a student unless it was a new course and a subscription product that the student said they don't find useful. As a rule and in theory the review is new-condition(s) and you can ask for stuff for pre-existing ones too.

Looking fwd to it!

I also argue that if society was less scarcity-model and less hustle-hustle "appear normal/non-disabled at all costs" even impairment impacts would be less detrimental. People could take time off sick when ill, or work fewer hours and still afford to live and indeed have different job formats.

I believe Prof Stephen Whittle has contacted all the trans-network people he knows each year and asks "do you have any legal cases or evidence of trans perpetrators of bad behaviour in single-sex space?" and consistently the answer is "No. This is just a complete non-problem".

translucent.org.uk/how-many-com...

What bugs me about the whole social model as presented is it ignores the part of the original framing which absolutely had space for impairment-bodymind impacts being shit. It was just they foregrounded society/barriers first, but not exclusively. Of course we hardly see any UK disability history.

Ah, so glad it's not me mishearing then! Cos I usually am good at accents and often detect twangs in people's speech that hearies miss.

To be fair I can see how Australian sounds a bit like some Brummie. There's an Australian YouTuber Pask Makes www.youtube.com/c/PaskMakes and I think he sounds REALLY like a Brummie. It took me ages to realise he was in Australia (ObStereotype: he found a big scary looking snake in his wood pile!)

100% this!

I think they should all complain to the Office for the Independent Adjudicator and demand some of their fees back for this nonsense.

BSL classes are often too expensive, that money isn't usually going to deaf people and teachers but colleges and private businesses.

It's hard now to make a living teaching BSL properly cos colleges treat teachers horribly and deaf people may not have support and skills to set up independently.

Quite.

Makaton thieves could share their money with deaf signers and work together. Keep makaton UK deaf coherent and led but help fund the community as well.

Hearing people love signing, but are being scammed and deaf people can rarely access the funding and training to learn how to teach.