Victoria Biggs
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238 appearances
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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Younger dyspraxic children can sometimes be referred for physiotherapy as well.
Um I was told by my occupational therapist that the younger you are, the more impact physio and that kind of thing is going to have.
for me, because I'd come along quite late, there was a limit to how much they could realistically change ab about how my body worked.
Makes sense.
The main influence that it's had on me is it teaches me never to assume anything about any child.
And this is especially useful to me when I'm getting frustrated.
Like if I have a child in front of me and I think, Oh, he could probably do this if he could if he tried, um he's just not bothering today.
There is eight year old Vicky in the back of my brain going, Stop, remember when this was said about you, you can be wrong.
And I think all teachers can learn to second guess themselves in that way, and it's very important that we do, but I have that visceral reminder, it never lets me do it.
Plus as in consequence of the social and communication difficulties I have, I've spent all my life knowing that humans are quite mysterious creatures and I'm not always going to understand them and I think this gives me a certain humility when I approach my students.
And it enables me to ask questions that might seem too obvious even to be asked, but actually aren't obvious at all.
And I think this helps me to build up a better rapport, better relationship, um and with my students.
Uh and they know my diagnosis too and this helps.
I I don't share a great deal about my personal story with them.
They've never read the book.
They don't know that I've written the book, for example.
Um but sometimes very casually um I'll mention it.
Like I had one fourteen year old boy who's phobic of writing, um and he gets very disruptive when he has to sit down and write.
He'll often refuse to do it.
He'll often break things in the classroom.
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