Just a reminder of this great presentation from Sharon Morris, Children’s Occupational Therapist in Highland.
This evidenced based approach contains practical adjustments to ensure the classroom environment can support all children, including those with neurodevelopmental differences. These resources are presented as a video and an accompanying handout developed within Highland Council Children’s Occupational Therapy Service.
Read about our self-evaluation and progress over the last 12 months.
Read about our self-evaluation and progress over the last 12 months.
The run up to Christmas looks different for everyone. For some children and young people there can be challenges that might benefit from extra planning. For some ideas have a look at the Planning for Christmas page within the Supporting Families section of this Blog.
The Pines, Neurodevelopmental Support Centre for Highland, based in Inverness is holding a coffee morning for parents, carers and professionals to share strategies which might help.
“Christmas can be a very stressful time for families and having some strategies to support your young person might help. Shona MacPherson from the Pines Speech & Language Therapy team has lots of ideas!”
Whenever a tragedy occurs, children, like many people, may be confused or frightened. Most likely they will look to adults for information and guidance on how to react. School staff can help children cope first and foremost by establishing a sense of safety and security.
Advice within this Guidance aims to support staff and to give them the confidence to appropriately respond to children and young people at this time.
We have updated our Meet the Team page and contents to make it easier for you to know who we are, what we do and how to contact us.
This useful document was put together by the support team based at the Pines in Inverness. They have pulled together some useful links for supporting pupils on their return to school in August.
‘Please find attached a simple guide to user friendly resources to support children with ASN returning to school in August
The Pines Neurodevelopmental Service in Highland.
This universal pack of ideas includes a range of attractive, interactive tools devised and collated by Highland Council Psychological Service. They follow a developmental sequence to allow you to select the most suitable approaches for gathering child views at all ages and stages.
We have recently been reviewing all our transition documents, templates and tools, taking into account recommendations from Realising the ambition: Being Me.
We realise that there is a lot of work going on around transitions nationally and locally due to the impact of COVID-19 but wanted to update and add to our range of documents.
Things may look different after the summer but there are some things that will stay the same. Preparation still needs to go on around sharing information on children’s needs and planning as best we can how to meet those needs.
How beginnings and endings are managed is important for our wellbeing, our sense of connection and belonging.
The circumstances which led to the rapid closure of schools in March meant that we were limited in the work we could do to plan for and support the transition out of school and to home for what was to be an unknown and extended period of time. During this time of school closure education staff have been acutely aware of the impact of inequality for some of our families, especially those with identified additional support needs.
Transitions for children and young people with ASN, June 2020
Highland Council Psychological Service 