Special Educational Needs (SEN) children advice and services
Find out more about Alison Pope and her experience of assisting parents of Special Educational Needs (SEN) children finding suitable education.
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Services

Addressing Anxieties

  • Assessing niggling concerns about your child’s learning
  • Identifying issues and where to go next
  • Next steps and points of contact

PRE AND POST DIAGNOSIS ADVICE AND SUPPORT

  • Pre and post diagnosis support and advice
  • Across a range of diagnoses and different learning styles

Network of Experts

  • Assessment of need for referral to relevant professionals
  • Objective referral to network of relevant experts
  • Liaison with parents and key professionals

Decoding Jargon

  • Helping parents make sense of professional reports
  • Advice in plain English putting assessments in context
  • Working with parents to understand content and implications of school, legal and Local Authority documentation

Finding the Right School

  • Identifying educational options for your child based on their individual profile
  • Researching and visiting potential schools with or for parents
  • Extensive knowledge of primary/secondary and specialist schools
  • Finding the right fit, advising on admissions and supporting transition

WORKING WITH YOUR EXISTING SCHOOL

  • Working to identify your child’s learning strengths and challenges with their current school
  • Supporting parents to work with schools to meet their child’s needs in a positive and pro active way
  • Supporting families and or schools when key home/school relationships are under pressure or have broken down

Advocating for Parents

  • Advising parents before and after meetings with schools and relevant professionals e.g. questions to ask, assurances to look for …
  • Attending key meetings with parents with schools and professionals to support and explain
  • Meeting, email and correspondence support for/on behalf of parents with schools, professionals and potential funding bodies
  • Support with collation and submission of paperwork to potential schools or funding bodies

Ongoing Support/Forward Planning

  • Forward planning for key stages of educational transition
  • Taking pressure off parents by assessing options in advance
  • Ongoing support and advice about ongoing educational provision

SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF ADOPTED CHILDREN

  • Advice and support for parents in understanding the learning challenges faced by their adopted children
  • Making sense of their emotional and behavioural challenges within the school environment

Relocation Advice

  • For families relocating to the UK or within the UK

SCHOOL EXCLUSIONS/MANAGED MOVES

  • Advice and support over school exclusions
  • Support with a managed move from one school to another

ALISON POPE – EMPOWERING PARENTS OF CHILDREN WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY