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Online Portal for Educators of Neurodiverse Children (OPEN)

Developed by
Karen O'Connor & Carmel Burke,
Consultant Speech and Language Therapists

  • A welcome and introduction from Karen O'Connor
  • A walkthough introduction to the sections of the Portal.

Welcome

This Portal has been developed specifically for Teachers, SNAs and Parents to help each child with neurodiverse needs achieve their greatest potential.

This Portal shares the most effective, up-to-the-minute, and easily accessible information about how to support, develop, and optimise each child’s communication skills and sensory development. It was created by Karen O’Connor and Carmel Burke, Speech and Language Therapists with over fifty years of combined experience working with children with neurodiverse needs.

It has been created as an online Portal so that Teachers, SNAs and Parents can easily and readily access answers to all their questions relating to each child’s communication, language, sensory, play, and social development and setting up the classroom as an optimum learning environment.

By accessing this Portal you will learn ways to:

  • Deepen your understanding of each child’s sensory and communication needs.
  • Provide the optimum support for each child by identifying and understanding their specific sensory and communication needs.
  • Increase positive behaviour and communication by decreasing behaviours of concern using different sensory diet strategies and programmes.
  • Reduce what appears to be ‘destructive’ or ‘aggressive’ behaviours within the classroom and optimise the experience for each child in the classroom.
  • Optimise the child with neurodiverse needs’ ability to be calm, listen and learn effectively.
  • Improve the child’s outcomes through individualised programmes, sensory-diets, strategies and approaches
  • Reduce your own stress levels by understanding better what the child with neurodiverse needs requires so as to reach their true potential
  • Be a valuable and knowledgeable resource in the area of neurodiversity for Parents and colleagues alike.

All of this will be available to you at the touch of a button so that we can help each child to learn and participate in school to the best of their ability.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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