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Odd Socks and Docs is a podcast aimed at anyone working in a
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities setting. Primarily teaching children and young people with severe and complex and profound learning difficulties.
I hope this will be helpful to anyone with an interest in SEND including parents and other professionals in medical and social roles.
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S4E2 Big Emotions
How people with Neurodiversity, ADHD and ASD can feel intense emotions that can feel visceral and painful, often triggering a meltdown. Being aware of this and tips on how to help someone with a Big…
S4E1 Chatting to a friend and fellow educator about her grandchild with ASD
Discussing how a positive attitude and presuming competence can really help parents and children. Especially relevant to children with ASD diagnosis.
S3E14 The Beach Comber
Collecting stones and pebbles for use in the class room. A fantastic resource, sensory experience which is highly adaptable to make great lesson with many links to curriculum areas such as literacy,…
S3E13 Time the greatest gift of all.
How successful teaching is about having great relationships with the staff and children. This can only happen by dedicating time to build the relationship.
S3E12 Let them be
The art of "Letting them be." and how this can be structured into activities across the curriculum and the school day. It is a very important skill to learn to be independent.
S3E11 Shopping
A fundamental Life Skill and needs to be taught carefully as it involves so many other skills. In this episode I talk about taking a group out weekly to a local shop and how to manage it.
S3E10 The Puppet
How puppets can really enhance conversation skills, including signing and bring fun and laughter into the classroom. Also touching on the use of hand puppets in Intensive Interaction sessions
S3E9 First this then that!
Just a minute, hold on a sec often used and not very meaningful. In this short episode I talk about using First this and Then that a simple clear way of moving from one thing to another. An action…
S3E8 The Mud Kitchen
Children everywhere will be drawn to playing with the earth, sand, pebbles or dirt. The mud kitchen allows children in their own time and in their own way to explore and learn. It is cheap and easy…
S3E7 Be the Light in the Room
Everyone needs a light, maybe the light at the end of a dark tunnel, maybe a bright shining light, maybe a slow steady light with a warm glow. Reflecting on how the mood in a room can be lifted.
S3E6 Soup
How a simple lesson of making soup can be developed into a community project with cross curricular links in reading, maths, social skills, independence skills, real life skills of shopping. In…
S3E5 Assault
Unfortunately when living or working with some students with severe learning difficulties with challenging behaviours it is likely that you may get assaulted. In this episode I reflect on this and…
S3E4 Monet
How my love for Monet lead to a term of beautiful art work with my mixed ability SEND class. With the added bonus of beautiful displays, cards and gifts not to mention all the other skills and great…
S3E3 Help cards
A simple bespoke card for students and their supporters, or independent people with SEND to carry. These cards should immediately tell a member of the public or services how best to help when someone…
S3E2 Tombola
Another idea for making Maths a fun activity whilst teaching other valuable life skills. Easy to adapt to age appropriate groups and easy to differentiate for individual students.
S3E1 Button Box
An idea for series of maths lessons that can be easily adapted and differentiated. The students have fun and their learning crosses into important areas of the curriculum including literacy, life…
S2E16 What is important?
The last episode of Series 2! When there just seems to be so many things that need to be done and taught, how do you decide what to prioritise and what is important to the students and parents!Have a…
S2E15 The Great British Bake Off
How working collaboratively with TA's can produce a fabulous term long project with lots of important learning outcomes beyond baking skills.
S2E14 Developing Good Relationships with Parents.
When you work together with parents you get the best outcomes for their children. They can be an incredible resource and no one knows their child like they do. In this episode I look at developing…
S2E13 Pancakes
How making pancakes weekly became a highly successful motivating lesson. Involving multi disciplinary work, lots of cross curricular links and real life skills that parents could practise with them…
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Odd Socks and Docs has published 55 episodes since March 2024, covering topics in Education, How To.
Odd Socks and Docs is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 27m.
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