SEND
Parents and Professionals: Listening to Each Other
Turn tense conversations with the parents of neurodivergent children into a working partnership, starting with how each of you likes to communicate.
- 56 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Recognise the baggage and pressures that make parent conversations go wrong
- Ask families how they prefer to communicate, and stick to it
- Adapt how you communicate with parents who may be neurodivergent themselves
- Talk and write to parents without jargon or abbreviations
- Work with local parent carer groups and share knowledge both ways
About this course
You've rung three times and the parent never picks up. They think school only calls when something has gone wrong. By the time you meet, both sides are braced for a fight, and the child is the one who loses out.
This course looks at what gets in the way between parents and professionals, especially in SEND. Parents bring baggage from their own school days, and many parents of neurodivergent children are neurodivergent themselves. Small changes help. Ask each family how they want to hear from you, because some parents can't take in a phone call or a chat at the school gate but will read every email. Cut the jargon and the abbreviations. Get to know your local parent carer group, and let parents share what they've found out.
It's taught by an autistic advocate and trainer who has worked in schools and colleges and is a parent too.
- For early career teachers, governors and 6 other roles. All phases.
Recording
Open in order
- 6 min
Introduction
- 7 min
Neuro what?
- 5 min
What gets in the way?
- 2 min
Them versus us
- 3 min
Why Parents are Important
- 3 min
Why Educators are Important
- 18 min
Ideas for all
- 4 min
What have you got to gain?
- 2 min
Resources
- 12 min
Q&A