As many of you know the government has slashed budgets and made it very difficult for young people with learning difficulties or special needs to get funding. This funding helps them to achieve their full potentials and contribute to the workplace in the same way as any young person could expect.
On the 19th June I am donating the whole day’s wage to help young people with learning disabilities. I shall be doing head massages nonstop from 9am until 6pm without a break (18 in total).
For those not enjoying a massage, I would love you to sponsor me either per head (as little as 20 or 50p would be gratefully received) or a flat rate for the whole day, if I last!
If you would like to support this and help those who have little voice achieve a few dreams or goals in the next year, please email me at info@therapiesforspecialneeds.co.uk.
I shall keep you informed of the event at every stage.
Please donate generously. These young people are worth believing in.
Giuliana’s work has appeared in the December 2012 issue of Autism Eye! To order the Winter 2012/2013 edition head over to Autism Eye’s back issue’s page. You can check out their latest issues over at http://www.autismeye.com/
At the November 2014 ’Thinking Outside The Box” annual conference for ADHD ASC & LD Belgium
Public speaking work is becoming a large part of what Giuliana does, being invited to talk not only at schools both here and abroad but to major organisations who work to promote awareness of “special needs” . This is an area Giuliana is growing increasingly passionate about and in November 2014 Giuliana was inviged as a guest speaker to the annual conference of ADHD, ASD & LD Belgium.
As well as raising awareness of special needs and giving these children their voices and dreams back, schools should be integrating “special needs” within the mainstream system and not segregating special needs. With so many young people in our society and our schools who have needs or differences now reaching epidemic levels, it is time schools and education planners integrated them more within the mainstream system instead of segregating them. It is no longer good enough to just label children: an understanding is needed and a lot more support so that they feel valued and nurtured. If a child feels safe, he or she will learn. By supporting them as a whole person – “Holistically”- Whole-istically they become happier, more alert, attendance increases and they are more productive and focused.
Giuliana will also be doing talks in Sweden, Ireland and Munich from late Spring 2015, as well as talks throughout the UK to schools and organisations.
I am extremely proud to be practising my therapy at Foxes Academy who were the subject of a channel five documentary series “The Special Needs Hotel.” It truly is an inspirational place – somewhere where magic really does seem to happen.
One of the stars of the series , Harriet , later appeared on This Morning and said how her dream would be to open a coffee shop which offers head massage! Please click here to watch the ‘This Morning‘ show.
