Sensory Class Blog
Supporting Learners with a PDA Profile: A Pract...
When a child with a Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile walks into your classroom, you might first notice avoidance behaviours, big emotions, or unexpected resistance to everyday requests. What’s beneath...
Supporting Learners with a PDA Profile: A Pract...
When a child with a Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile walks into your classroom, you might first notice avoidance behaviours, big emotions, or unexpected resistance to everyday requests. What’s beneath...
When Behaviour is Communication
Supporting Minimally Speaking Learners with Sensory Needs In any classroom — mainstream, nurture, or specialist — there are learners whose behaviour speaks far louder than their words. For some, words...
When Behaviour is Communication
Supporting Minimally Speaking Learners with Sensory Needs In any classroom — mainstream, nurture, or specialist — there are learners whose behaviour speaks far louder than their words. For some, words...
SEND Teacher Tips: How to Make Your Laminated S...
Let’s be honest—if you’re working with visuals every day, your laminator probably gets more action than your kettle. Symbols get handled a lot—stuck, peeled, posted, prodded, and occasionally chewed. So...
SEND Teacher Tips: How to Make Your Laminated S...
Let’s be honest—if you’re working with visuals every day, your laminator probably gets more action than your kettle. Symbols get handled a lot—stuck, peeled, posted, prodded, and occasionally chewed. So...
SEND Teacher Interview Tips
SEND Teacher Interview Tips (From Someone Who’s Sat on Both Sides!) So you’ve landed an interview for a SEND teacher role—huge congratulations! Whether it’s for a resource base, special school,...
SEND Teacher Interview Tips
SEND Teacher Interview Tips (From Someone Who’s Sat on Both Sides!) So you’ve landed an interview for a SEND teacher role—huge congratulations! Whether it’s for a resource base, special school,...
See Stimming as an Opportunity
Why ‘Stimming’ Might Be Communication: Rethinking Behaviour Through Intensive Interaction We’ve all heard it.“He keeps flapping his hands.”“She won’t stop spinning.”“They just rock and hum all day.” "They are lost...
See Stimming as an Opportunity
Why ‘Stimming’ Might Be Communication: Rethinking Behaviour Through Intensive Interaction We’ve all heard it.“He keeps flapping his hands.”“She won’t stop spinning.”“They just rock and hum all day.” "They are lost...
Sensory Recipes for All
25 Sensory Recipes for Every Classroom and Home — and Why They Matter Ever needed a quick way to calm an overstimulated child… or a simple way to spark communication...
Sensory Recipes for All
25 Sensory Recipes for Every Classroom and Home — and Why They Matter Ever needed a quick way to calm an overstimulated child… or a simple way to spark communication...