We are all sensory creatures, exploring, understanding, and engaging with the world through all our many senses. This is just as true for someone who may have additional (special) needs as it is for anyone else.

We need a bit of cheering up and we all hope that this year might be the year that life can return to normal.

Those who suffer most in conflict zones are children and young people with additional needs and disabilities.

Andrey Tyschchenko is the pastor of an evangelical church in Kharkiv, one of the cities hardest hit by the Russian attack. He is now a refugee in Poland with his family. From there, he organises help to be sent into Ukraine.

Let all of our interactions with children and young people with additional needs be honouring to them.

There are probably people in our churches today who have a personal history with Jesus we don’t know about.

The author hopes the book will encourage readers to think more about the next steps that we can all take together, to create a place of belonging and spiritual development for all.

Churches can become centres of excellence for the creative use of AI technology to support everyone, including disabled people, both in church and elsewhere.

A checklist of ideas to have a great, inclusive, start to the New Year in children’s and youth groups and to create a place where everyone belongs.

Some believe that “Europe cannot afford to dismiss energy sources” with low CO₂ emissions, but others warn that the decision of the European Union “is all about information for the capital markets”.

The Quran is the foundational text of Islam, and through the Islamic sharia it shapes legal systems, politics, ethics, cultures, and worship for a quarter of the world’s population. An article by Mark Durie.

‘Invited to Belong’ begins with an invitation to consider, how you might invite young people with additional needs to find a place of belonging within your community, your youth group, your church.

Let’s make sure we speak out and correct anyone who perpetuates these harmful views about autism.

The new advert could easily relate to someone who is a child refugee, or a child with additional need.

The things for which we are grateful, are a helpful reminder to us in those darker moments that things can and are positive too.

We decided to take the opportunity to explore this theme of fear. We wanted to see if the Christian message has anything to offer.

The input of children and young people with additional needs, and their families, can help us know the best way to journey with them and to support them.

Nonverbal communication is complex and can take more decoding than verbal communication, but it can be as rich and expressive if we are willing to learn it.

“A brilliant role model” is exactly what he can be to the 1 in 5 children and young people who live with additional needs or disability in the UK.

The plight of many families with disabled children hasn’t received the media attention that it so deserves and needs.

A range of fidget or fiddle toys can be really effective for children’s and youth workers and families, offering them safe ways to meet the sensory needs that children have.

Talking about mental health with young people through a glimpse into the early life of  of a well-known TV presenter and his struggles with mental health as a teenager.

A meltdown isn’t James being ‘badly behaved’, it isn’t him ‘pushing boundaries’ or ‘being difficult’. It is a brain overload, like a storm engulfing his brain.

Here’s my seven ‘top tips’ to help us help our family to improve our overall mental health afther the lockdowns.

What about wrong choices in the words that we use, especially words that might relate to additional needs or disability?