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A guide to the EHCP

A guide to the EHCP An Educational Health Care Plan is a legal document that outlines the requirements and entitlements of your fae for the coming academic year. It was previously known as a statement. As with the statement it is reviewed each year and any changes to requirements are updated and targets reassessed. InContinue reading “A guide to the EHCP”

The blue parking badge

Blue badge what you don’t know and how to apply. The blue badge What came as a big surprise to us was that we qualified for the blue badge and disability parking in the first place. When we were told this by our social worker we did, I admit, raise an eyebrow and ask ifContinue reading “The blue parking badge”

First meeting bingo

We have, as I expect most parents of fae children do, a lot of meetings with health care professionals and therapists. We have started to notice a pattern in the things they say upon first observing our daughter. At first this was irritating, as none of these comments were at all helpful nor insightful, soContinue reading “First meeting bingo”

A guide to the DLA

Guide to the DLA for under 16s The Disability Living Allowance is a benefit, provided to support people who incur extra expense due to a physical or mental disability. There a 2 forms, make sure you download and fill in the correct one for the age of the applicant. For most Fae children that willContinue reading “A guide to the DLA”

Notes to my daughter

Dear Daughter, When I told you that you would be able to choose what you had for dinner as soon as you stopped shouting at daddy and me and started behaving my expectation was for you to start behaving. It was not for you to fall to the floor and wail “I’m never going toContinue reading “Notes to my daughter”

Getting help and support

Getting help and support. When our daughter was first diagnosed with autism, I was given a piece of paper with a list of barely-legible links that had been cut and pasted off the internet and were all over a line long. None of these links actually stated what they were to, and only half ofContinue reading “Getting help and support”

Glossary of terms

Autistic meltdown: when an autistic person is struggling to process too much information at one time leading to feelings of high anxiety and stress. Often linked to times where they have had to mask or been flooded with sensory input. They will lose complete control of their behaviour and it is often mistaken for aContinue reading “Glossary of terms”

Raising the Modern Fae

During the Victorian times, and before it was often thought that fairies stole young children and replaced them with their own fairy children. These fairy children, although identical in appearance to the original child often behaved in a way that was considered inappropriate. There was a range of these behaviours that scaled from slightly quirkyContinue reading “Raising the Modern Fae”