By Dr Rachel McKeating and Dr Deanne Bell, Educational Psychologists
As EPs, much of our work involves understanding children's experiences and helping them communicate their views. Whether through assessment, consultation or intervention planning, we want to understand how children experience scho...
This is the second blog in our series exploring barriers to education. In the first blog, Shannon Hatton-Corcoran and Rachel Lyons introduced the WARMTH framework - six foundations to reduce barriers to education, recognising that declining attendance is a symptom of unmet need requiring compassiona...
Written by Shannon Hatton-Corcoran (Trafford Educational Psychology Service) & Rachel Lyons (Salford Educational Psychology Service)
Overview
Barriers to Education: a compassionate and proactive approach that is for ALL young people. It recognises that declining attendance is the result of barrier...
For many children and young people, attending school can feel overwhelming. What might seem like simple daily routines - getting dressed, travelling to school, entering a busy classroom - can require significant emotional and sensory energy. Without understanding these experiences from the child's p...
As a parent, you want the best for your child. So when they start struggling to attend school, it can be a worrying and confusing time. You might have heard terms like 'school refusal' or 'school phobia', but there are also a wide range of newer more compassionate terms too, such as Emotionally Base...
As parents, we want our children to feel happy and secure at school. But when your child is experiencing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA), this can feel like an enormous challenge. If you're reading this, chances are you've already been on quite a journey with your child, navigating the com...
