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SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?
Education & Development

SEND crisis: overdiagnosis - fact or fiction?

...children outstripping the resources available. There have been recent suggestions by high profile figures that an overdiagnosis of specific learning difficulties and neurodiversity is to blame. However, the data tells us a different story; in fact, there is a problem with underdiagnosis instead. Is a diagnosis necessary? While a child in the UK doesn’t need a formal...
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Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Jake Chapman On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Research Group (1972-1978). As Professor of Energy Systems (1978 -2001) Jake became Head of the Systems Department (1987- 1994) and a major contributor to courses on applying systems theory to management and complex problem solving. He also played a major role at the OU in developing teaching materials to enable home-based students to use computers. Since 2001, Jake has...
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Audio 15 mins
Managing motherhood and sports participation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Managing motherhood and sports participation

...research interests but also by our personal situations as sportspeople and full-time working mothers...[woman with child doing yoga pose] With 42% of women not active enough for good health, the topic of female sports participation is of growing social, political and cultural importance. This concern is reflected in the funding and interventions run by public health...
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Article 10 mins
Autism quiz text
Health, Sports & Psychology

Autism quiz text

...children in Romanian orphanages, he identified an ‘autistic-like’ condition in some of them, but these children recovered substantially when they experienced a more nurturing environment after adoption. 3. People with autism are all eccentric geniuses Is the answer TRUE, FALSE or DEBATABLE? Answer... FALSE Just a small minority of people on the autism spectrum have...
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Article 5 mins
Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...research has shown aerobic fitness and physical exercise, regardless of weight status, to be positively associated with academic performance. Additionally, lack of exercise can result in children / adolescents becoming overweight, which may be linked to sleep difficulties, psychological health risks, cardiovascular risks, Type 2 diabetes, respiratory complications and...
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Article 10 mins
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...children and young people’s wellbeing research report’ by the Department for Education (2020) states that ‘The wellbeing of children and young people is central to Government policy and is central to achieving the aims of the Department for Education’. [Two young children studying at a table. A teacher is helping one of the children.] ‘Recent reports have shown...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...research and knowledge exchange project educates on what food allergies are and how they can severely affect health and wellbeing, and restrict social freedoms such as eating out of the home...While food allergies were once thought to be more common in children, they are now more prevalent in adults. With 1 in 20 adults in the UK with a confirmed food allergy (Food...
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Audio 2 hrs
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...research in Finland suggests that the time demands, insecurity and relative isolation of cleaning work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve...Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man in his mid-thirties currently working as a cleaner in Finland. His story includes many
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