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BSA day seminar – An inclusive approach to neurodiversity in boarding schools
- Date: February 01, 2023
- Time: 10:30 – 15:30
- Cost: Full Member – £145 Affiliate Member – £215, Non-member – £290
- Audience: Heads, Deputy Heads, SENCos, Head of Boarding, Boarding Staff, Teachers.
- Platform: Zoom (online)
Course outline
- To outline the importance of understanding and implementing an inclusive neurodiversity approach in boarding schools
- To demystify the term neurodiversity in terms of learning, behaviour and socialisation differences
- To consider how to deliver an inclusive neurodiversity approach in terms of leadership and implementation to staff and the whole student body.
Training topics will include:
- A range of terms within the neurodiversity spectrum including ASD, ADHD, BD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia (SpLD), EFD and ODD will be explained and explored
- How to develop an Inclusive approach across the Boarding School community will be outlined considering leadership, admissions, implementation and communication with parents
- We will develop a complete understanding of the implications of living with neurodiversity through student voice and will consider issues of living, bullying, social isolation, wellbeing and preparing for future transitions.
Learning outcomes:
- We will be focus on neurodiversity traits and not labels in order to support all students within the boarding school community with the opportunity to fulfil their potential in all academic and socialisation settings
- Attendees will have much better understanding of how students (and colleagues) with traits of neurodiversity may interpret the world. We will as a result in some cases confirm but also direct and nudge changes in policies and process where necessary
- We will show the importance of how the world needs neurodiversity in terms not of deficits but differences in order to facilitate future change and innovation throughout society.
Speakers: Fin O’Regan MA. PGCE, BSc Hons, ADHD and Neurodiversity trainer and consultant
Fin is one of the leading behaviour and learning specialists in the UK. He is currently an ADHD and Neurodiversity consultant and trainer for number of schools and organisations, an associate lecturer for Leicester University, NASEN, the Helen Arkell Charity and the Institute of Education.
He was the Headmaster of the Centre Academy School, regarded as the first specialist school within the UK for children with ADHD/ODD from 1996 -2002. Prior to that, he was a Deputy Head Teacher, the Head of the Science Department and a Science/PE teacher in London, Newcastle and Washington DC.
He is a current member of the Special Education Consortium, the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee, and The London CDC and is a council member of CReSTeD.
Fintan is an internationally acclaimed presenter has presented over 2000 seminars throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia, New Zealand and North America and has published over 10 books on learning, behaviour and socialisation issues.
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Dr Jennifer Donovan AMBDA is a Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University where she is the Award Leader for the SpLD (dyslexia) programme. Her research interests include the assessment and support of literacy difficulties with learners of all ages, with a particular interest in spelling assessment and intervention. Her current research project involves working with Specialist Teachers to investigate the effectiveness of a dynamic assessment approach to spelling.