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• Thursday 12 January 2023 The Hope Service
• Friday 2 September 2022 Vanessa's Blog: September Survival Guide! September Survival Guide!
• Monday 14 March 2022 Vanessa's Blog: March - International Women's Day All about the girls!
• Wednesday 24 November 2021 Vanessa's Blog: It's nearly Christmas
• Monday 12 July 2021 Vanessa's Blog: Summer Holiday Tips! We all know how stressful the 6 week break can be.  Below are some ideas which may help everyone to cope a bit better.  Adapt them to suit your child, your family and your circumstances.
• Friday 23 April 2021 Vanessa's Blog: School Refusal Top Tips for supporting children who are refusing to come to school
• Thursday 21 January 2021 Vanessa's Blog: December - Top Strategies of 2020 2020 has been a year that none of us could have predicted and the outreach team have often found ourselves faced with questions we could never have predicted 12 months before. How do we teach a child with autism to socially distance? How do we engage our kids in home learning, when they really want home and school to be kept completely separate? How do we get them back in after 6 months at home? Throughout the pandemic we have tried to keep supporting schools and families in new and different ways, which has been a learning process for all. The website has been a big part of that and it has been really lovely to hear that so many of you find our resource pages useful. For my final blog of 2020, I enlisted the team to have a think about what have been their go-to strategies this year;
• Friday 30 October 2020 Vanessa's Blog: October - Ideas for groups I am asked quite often about social skills programs that you can follow with intervention groups or what to do with a group targeting girls, or anxiety. The truth is that there a lot of programs out there, but few of them actually do the things we need them to, taking into social context and mental health. The best intervention groups draw from a number of different resources and strategies, adapting to the individual needs of your group. Here are some of my favourite ideas for social and emotional learning in small groups;
• Wednesday 30 September 2020 Vanessa's Blog: September - Logic Diagrams
• Monday 6 July 2020 Vanessa's Blog - July: Using prompts to promote learning Hello all,
• Monday 29 June 2020 Vanessa's Blog: June - Sleep
• Thursday 30 April 2020 Vanessa's Blog - April: Oughtism and Autism in a Pandemic
• Friday 28 February 2020 Vanessa's Blog - February: Screen time
• Friday 31 January 2020 Vanessa's Blog - January: Back to Basics!
• Friday 20 December 2019 Vanessa's Blog - December: Energy Accounting at Christmas
• Tuesday 26 November 2019 Vanessa's Blog - November: Interoception (and xmas!)
• Friday 1 November 2019 Vanessa's Blog - October: Books for Professionals
• Monday 30 September 2019 Vanessa's Blog - September: New School Year
• Friday 1 February 2019 Vanessa's Blog - January: Supporting Siblings
• Wednesday 19 December 2018 Vanessa's Blog - December: Top 10 tips for a class with no support staff
• Tuesday 27 November 2018 Vanessa's Blog - November: Advice for families at Christmas
• Wednesday 31 October 2018 Vanessa's Blog - October: Imagination and flexible thinking
• Monday 24 September 2018 Vanessa's Blog - September: Reluctant to come to school
• Friday 27 July 2018 Vanessa's Blog - July: Communication
• Sunday 1 July 2018 Vanessa's Blog - June: Summer Holiday tips
• Friday 1 June 2018 Vanessa's Blog - May: Emergency Services
• Monday 30 April 2018 Vanessa's Blog - April: Strategies for deep breathing
• Tuesday 9 January 2018 Vanessa' Blog - January: video games and ASD
• Thursday 21 December 2017 Vanessa's Blog - December: Sensory Stocking fillers Vanessa's Blog - December
• Wednesday 29 November 2017 Vanessa's blog - November: Preparing for Christmas Vanessa's blog - November

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