Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In the UK, we've we we had a nine-year-old who was at university, right?
So they may not be emotionally ready to do a whole university classes, you know, be there all day, every day, but there are courses that are being offered all over the place.
And so once you know what your child is passionate about, what gets them excited and interested, then you want to feed that passion and encourage that passion.
And then encourage the educators by sharing that passion and enable your child to share their passion as often as possible.
You know, so give them opportunities to share that passion with the relatives when they
Come round, but not in a not in a negative do you you need you must perform, but you know, encourage them to share.
So, for instance, if they're artistic, then have their artwork out so that people can see it.
Most people use social media, so you're on social media all of the time.
So then share some of the stuff, the cute things and the wonderful things that your child is doing with your friends and family.
So that there is that conversation, that celebration, so that your child can feel that they're what they're interested in is of value.
Because then when they have self-confidence in what they're doing, then they'll share it better.
And then when you then go into those meetings with educators, then you'll be able to talk about it.
If your child does have an IEP and you're
In an IEP meeting, then you'll be able to talk about your child's strengths.
And you have to get that conversation in.
IEP meetings are notoriously all about your child's deficits.
If we never talk about the strengths of a child, we miss out on more than half of our human beings.
We are not all the things that are wrong with us, we are not all the things that we cannot.
Do.
We are all the things that we can do and they need to be celebrated.
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