Mental Health ATI Keyworker. Parent of 2 autisic adults with LD/SLCN who can communicate distress with harmful behaviour. OU MAEd (Applied Linguistics)
@HPicked_hotels We wish to say thank you to @GrantleyHall_ for refusing our custom, and to Wood Hall Hotel Wetherby for giving us a warm welcome. We enjoyed a very special wedding celebration, with attentive friendly service and the most delicious food. Five stars to Wood Hall!
Our team hear about the amazing transformations of participants on our programmes every day and we wanted to share some of these stories over the next few weeks! ✨
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@Ander59245773@MrMcEnaney my daughter got a detention over shoes, she hadn't told me her shoes were broken, she walked to school in shoes with holes in because she didn't want to put more pressure on us with looking after her two disabled siblings. She's just finishing her MA at a Russell Group Uni BTW
@sbaroncohen I really needed this today. Tomorrow I fight my nonspeaking daughter's corner re continuing education. It frustrates me beyond belief that she is deemed uninterested in education as she was 'challenging'; there is so much more to her than people assume!
Just for curiosity - if you made mud pies as a child (UK) what did you call it? I grew up in the Surrey and called it 'making mud Pies' my partner (Yorkshire) calls it playing 'slap-dash'.
@jesswade My parents had to fight tooth and nail for me to take physics at school. Teacher didn't want me, reluctantly accepted onto CSE, ended up double entered with an O level pass. Have things not changed in the last 30 odd years?
It's our birthday! 🥳
On this day in 1969, The Royal Charter's creation was approved by Her Majesty The Queen.
We'd like to say a huge thank you to the more than two million #OUFamily members who have studied with us in the past 53 years.
Now, where's that cake...
@stickmancrips @autismage @RightfulLives As an NT who tries v hard to understand I think it's plain disrespectful to not listen to those with lived experience. Eye rolling is unprofessional and out of order.
So I had some interesting comments after posting a photo of my 25 year old son with a half of beer, he's autistic and has learning disabilities, that doesn't mean he doesn't get to have a beer, that he doesn't get to experience life just like any other 25 year old.