Alison John and the UWTSD Inclusion Conference

The wonderful Alison John attended and spoke at the UWTSD Inclusion Conference today! I would really recommend any practitioner to take a look at her work.

Here is her campaign to 'Liberate a Loo.'

'Toilets are not "Disabled!" If anything they may be temporarily impaired in some way, a broken chain, loo set, no mirror, no sanitary protection! I could go on. But the toilet is not discriminated against.
The term Disabled is used to describe an experience that can happen to particular people within our communities.
We accept that some people have significant impairments, and we as a society do discriminate against them and therefore we do Disable People.
This national movement is about changing the language we use to describe people and things. I would suggest that the term "Accessible Toilet" describes more accurately what it is, the term also suggest anyone who requires a little more space could use it.'

http://www.alisonjohn.com/liberate-a-loo/

Birdfeeders!

Here is my trial birdfeeder I am going to make tomorrow in my Nursery placement setting.

If you were interested in making your own:
It links to -
-ESDGC
-Welsh Government Well-Being Goals
-Understanding of the World 
-Fine motor skills


Find out how to make them here:
http://happyhooligans.ca/homemade-bird-feeders-cheerios-bl…/

A Wonderful Blog!

This is amazing and very inspirational, it is about a dad who writes about his newborn son's journey with Down's syndrome. I'd recommend everyone to have a look .


See here for his blog: https://georgejonessite.wordpress.com/

The Equality and Inclusion of Disabled Children course by Children in Wales and Inclusion Conference

Completed The Equality and Inclusion of Disabled Children course by Children in Wales last Thursday! Looking forward to the training offered in my Inclusion Conference this Thursday.

More information to follow.

Well-being of Future Generations Act

Here is a resource to learn about the Well-Being of Future Generations Act which is from Wales.

I feel it is the first step into a worldwide spread of taking sustainability into consideration especially when concerning children. 

Baby CPR

Here is a brilliant resource for remembering Baby CPR (under one year or very small), as it is different to the older child or adult CPR. Remember - if your child is not breathing than CPR is the best chance of survival for your baby, do not avoid CPR in fear of "hurting" them.


Here's a quick note of what to do:

• Send a bystander to call for an ambulance, if you are alone start CPR immediately (999 or 112 if you have no signal).
• 5 initial breath puffs over nose and mouth. 
• 30 chest pumps (using only two fingers in the center of the chest)
• Two rescue breaths over nose and mouth.
• 30 more chest pumps.
• *** If you are alone and have not called for an ambulance, now is the time to do it after 1 minute of CPR***

Continue 30 chest compression followed by 2 rescue breaths until help arrives!

What to do if a child starts choking!

Paediatric First Aid

Did a great paediatric first aid course today! Here is a video to show what to do if your child (or anyone) starts choking by St. John's Ambulance.

Adult and Child

Baby Choking