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What should I do? Desperate need of help :)
Haia! I just finished my masters degree at Edinburgh Napier University, and unfortunately my time there was cut short due to Covid-19 last year. I had to finish up my course online as I was stuck in North Wales with my family. I am desperate to move back to Edinburgh as soon as I possibly can, but I am not sure if I should…
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ShawAcademy
Above. During the first lockdown circa this time last year, I did 2 courses with them in Digital Photography and Scratch coding and achieved Diplomas, and now they're doing an offer, £49 for lifetime membership, reduced from nearly a Grand. But because I completed both my courses within the first 6 months of a year's…
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Sharing the message of inclusion, kindness, anti bullying and animal welfare through childrens books
I would like to share with my SCOPE community friends that I wrote these children's books to help spread the message, when I was at school bullying was relatively commonplace sadly and I know a lot has now changed, this message is told through animal stories. I was not diagnosed with autism until later in life when at…
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EHCP - Challenging the decision
Our son is in Year 6 with EHCP in place. During the review of EHCP we have been asked for our preference for secondary school. Unfortunately our L.A. Did not name our choice in the final plan and instead named another school. We are unhappy with that choice and as I understand we need to challenge that decision. I have two…
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It’s about not going back to college
I would get advice from my social worker
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Busy homeschooling day
Well upto now i have gave kids breakfast done housework gave my boy hís meds took my own meds done 35 pages of school work with my daughter now working through my sons schoolwork we áré on 2 page 15 then after lunch do more schoolwork with my 5 other kids pat on back to me
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JSA and Online Education
I wanted to ask if anyone had any thoughts or information. My mum still receives JSA with SDP, alongside her PIP. The reason she still receives JSA is because she is not trying to say she cant work and she actually wants to work badly, obviously she would just need reasonable adjustments made, so she prefers to stick to…
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Do you want to learn something new?
What’s happening? Over the next couple of weeks (17 October to 1 November 2020) the annual Family Learning Festival is taking place. This is a special event that celebrates learning and hopes to inspire a love of learning in family life. What are the benefits of learning? Learning is a life-long activity that has different…
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dyslexia and maths
i know some people who have dyslexia are really good at maths but although i have the former and i am not good at the latter. Any tips for doing maths gcse when dyslexic?
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Webinars for prospective and current disabled college and university students
Good morning everybody and I hope you are staying as well and warm as you can during these strange times. We have five webinars scheduled between now and June to prepare you for college/university. They are all free to attend and are on Wednesdays between 4.30 and 6.00pm with plenty of time for questions and answers. Here…
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Hi, im julesmonroe1972! Why has my sons EHCP been taken away?
My son is under 3 hospitals awaiting formal diagnosis and his school have taken his EHCP away he is 9 went to specialist nursery then mainstream with a speech and language unit on site
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Career Pathways - Top tips for starting college
Our Career Pathways team have made a video to support students who are starting college. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D-OojX7iS8Have you just started a new educational journey? Do you have any top tips? Let us know in the comments below!
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School work during lockdown for my Asd&adhd boy age 7.
Hi all, wondering if you have any suggestions, experiences to share... so my boy is 7 next week and has asd( also in process of adhd dx) and each time I start his school work with him he has violent protesting meltdowns. I had this each day from March to July last year and am dreading these next few weeks being the same.…
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How is home-schooling going for you and your family?
Although I'm not a parent or care-giver, I know from my friends that home-schooling isn't easy. From getting children to concentrate, not get distracted by games and engage with the teacher and work - it's hard. Scope have produced a 'Homeschooling during lockdown' advice page that offers ample resources and tips to help…
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Covid: Home School Website
Hello everyone, I have created a website designed to benefit parents and carers of young people who have additional learning needs who may have to be home schooled during the Covid-19 outbreak. You can find it via this link: shorturl.at/gBU18 - if you have any resources that you think would be helpful to add, please do let…
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Online learning for free or ridiculously cheap during lockdown?
Above. Last year I did 2 course with ShawAcademy.com and got Diplomas in Photography and Scratch coding. However these courses were expensive at £50 a month, with no refunds if you completed the course within the first year so I had to drop out after a few months having completed the 2 courses and started a web design…
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Mainstream or specialist secondary?
Hi having lots of difficulty with this decision? Anyone been in this situation? 10 yr old ASD/ADD, high functioning but very sensitive, emotional and socially vulnerable. Just got EHCP so don't know what potential with support as up to now had absolute minimum. Needs environment of special but also want him challenged in…
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Does education need transforming for disabled young people?
Today (12th
August) is International Youth Day. It’s an awareness day chosen by the United
Nations, with the purpose to draw attention to cultural and legal issues
surrounding youth. This year, the theme is around transforming education. They
are wanting to make education more widely and freely available to people…
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Aduit training
I am a volunteer for a local charity we mainly deal with support for benefit tribunals, completing forms, access problems. I am interested in training in the Audit side of this group they will give me practical training but l need educational training now to be able to go out alone and deal with access problems, which…
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Autism student
Hi my son is enrolled in collage he’s just had a a diagnosis of autism I’m inquiring to see he would get disabled student funding for having autism or does it depend on the individual college
