If you are a parent/carer/educator of any echolalic children, it is very worth your while to learn more about gestalt language processing! youtu.be/_DznntscgT8

All across the UK the Christmas mail is piling up. Our members want to end the strike action but Royal Mail want to smash their jobs and refuse to engage with us. RT if you demand that Royal Mail return to negotiations and reach a settlement to save Christmas. #StandByYourPost

@JessicaEarlyLit and I made something really beautiful #together

The Israeli military is confiscating tents which were used as a temporary school for the children of Khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa in Masafer Yatta, after it demolished their school about two weeks ago.

These are the children whose temporary school was Israel destroyed today, again, after it demolished their school two weeks ago.

We really need to think about the messages that we are giving our children about colours. #RepresentationMatters #TinyVoiceTalks #TinyVoicesTalk tinyvoicetalks.com/post/it-s-not-…

Among the other findings that interested me was the fact that “word of mouth” remains the dominant determinant in picking schools, higher even than Ofsted and much, much higher than Sat scores, which barely register 9/

Our cat Steven has been truly going above and beyond with a variety of new humans coming into our house. He is like a childminding cheat code!

A thread about the Policy Exchange's report into the Trojan Horse Affair. (Please RT and Like: especially those who didn't make the Policy Exchange's McCarthy-esque list of tweeters who praised the podcast series.)

Ofsted, still perpetuating standard language ideology in November 2022. Report from an Early Years setting: "Staff model correct language... and they expect the children to use that language. As a result, children are confident and articulate in talking to each other and adults".

Coming back because I could use some help finding any neurodiversity affirming paediatric occupational/physical/speech and language therapists in or near Leeds? Hopefully ones who work with younger children. @eyfs4m W Divergent Perspectives

Just wrote my first 2 year old check report as a childminder. It felt great not using a template that grades someone's young child against a single (racist, ableist) standard of measurement.

Over the years I've seen some great writing from autistic and other neurodivergent people writing about their play as children. Can anyone link to any of these? Has anyone made a collection of these somewhere? They are important.

the amazing @mboveda.bsky.social has a doctoral student who is expanding this study to the UK. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

I have to be honest and say the past 2 years spent campaigning to stop these ratio changes and for the government to announce in January they had cancelled the plans and now for them to be just announced as if it was something brilliant the government have come up with to cure

Today's successful strike action at Orchard Day Nursery led to the closure of the setting to all parents and children with almost 100% of the workforce withdrawing their labour

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Thanks to all the parents and children of Orchard Day Nursery who took the time to express their support and solidarity to our members A special thanks goes out to those who took the time to visit the picket line and the many who brought biscuits, drinks, and sweets ❤️

Members at Orchard Day Nursery are gearing up for a further 2 days of action next week Join them on the planned picket lines Tuesday 21st March from 7am Thursday 23rd March from 7am #solidarity UNISON - UK's largest union UNISON North West Trades Union Congress TUC North West Liverpool Echo BBC North West