About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 55 episodes
- Big Emotions · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 2How 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…
- Chatting to a friend and fellow educator about her grandchild with ASD · 52 min · Season 4 Episode 1Discussing how a positive attitude and presuming competence can really help parents and children. Especially relevant to children with ASD diagnosis.
- The Beach Comber · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 14Collecting 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…
- Time the greatest gift of all. · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 13How successful teaching is about having great relationships with the staff and children. This can only happen by dedicating time to build the relationship.
- Let them be · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 12The 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.
- Shopping · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 11A 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…
- The Puppet · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 10How 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…
- First this then that! · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 9Just 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…
- The Mud Kitchen · 23 min · Season 3 Episode 8Children 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…
- Be the Light in the Room · 20 min · Season 3 Episode 7Everyone 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…
- Soup · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 6How 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…
- Assault · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 5Unfortunately 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…
- Monet · 17 min · Season 3 Episode 4How 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…
- Help cards · 18 min · Season 3 Episode 3A 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…
- Tombola · 19 min · Season 3 Episode 2Another 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.
- Button Box · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 1An 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…
- What is important? · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 16The 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…
- The Great British Bake Off · 19 min · Season 2 Episode 15How working collaboratively with TA's can produce a fabulous term long project with lots of important learning outcomes beyond baking skills.
- Developing Good Relationships with Parents. · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 14When 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…
- Pancakes · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 13How 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…
