A child with SPD may have reactions which can be difficult to understand. Their body is automatically reacting to what is around them by being in a ‘fight’ or ‘flight’ mode, and this can be wrongly interpreted as bad behaviour.

Telling the story in different sensory ways  will help the story to become more accessible to children and young people.

Much of the information circulating at the moment can really upset children with additional needs who may struggle to comprehend what they are seeing and hearing.

Jesus demonstrates that doing good isn’t a six-day-a-week activity, it is something we should do whatever day it is.

A strong theme through the film is Auggie coming to terms with the reactions of others to his disability, but at the beginning really struggling to do so.

He often used the opportunity to heal someone as a practical way of teaching us something else.

Jesus used the opportunity to heal someone as a practical way of teaching us something else.

Ava realises that the best way to support her friend Edgar the dragon is not to try and change him, but to help him find a way to be involved and included.

After a week away enjoying the sun and swimming with our gorgeous girl, it came to my attention that the general public is desperately in need of some guidance around interacting with kids with disabilities and their families.

Jesus didn’t establish his church to be a place where only people that fitted in were welcome; he railed and raged against that very thinking 2,000 years ago.

We have reduced our central heating thermostat by 1 degree and will look to reduce it further in stages. Jumpers are lovely, we should wear them more when it’s colder.

Animator Bobby Rubio is father to Alex, a young Autistic boy, and ‘Float’ is his way of sharing their story.

Perhaps looking at it in this way helps us to understand both stories better, and to appreciate more fully the experiences, challenges and struggles of families that we know today.

There are 13 million disabled people in the UK, including children and adults, plus all of their friends and family. By voting for the party that seems nearest to how you think, you can be a part of influencing change rather than being on the sidelines.

All we could do was to give thanks to God and praise him for what he had done.

We all long to be liked, to have friends, to be included and to belong.

The disciples had proved powerless and the father’s faith was limited. It is God alone who decides who will be healed or not, rather than the level of faith or lack of faith of the parents.

Understand me: “If you tell me to sit up straight, now I have to use all of my brain to do just that.”

These words count for everyone.

You are so much more than you seem, you are so much more than what people see.

Being healed physically or not is not promised; but what Jesus does is to bring healing to our souls, restoring us. calling us “daughter”, calling us “son”.

Disability is neither due to a person’s sin nor the sin of their parents.

How does the way that David welcomed Mephibosheth into his royal court challenge the way we welcome children and young people with additional needs into church? 

There is nothing wrong with generous hospitality but sometimes we can overdo it or be so focussed on everything being perfect that we forget the very reason we are doing it at all.

Candles can be vulnerable, but they can also burn brightly, lighting up a room, changing darkness into light.